WORLD BRIEFING / UNITED STATES
Times Wire Reports
President-elect Barack Obama should put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign, domestic and security policy to undo “the enormous damage” of the Bush years, Human Rights Watch said in its survey of conditions in more than 90 countries.
The group said the Bush administration decided to combat terrorism “without regard to such basic rights as not to be subjected to torture, enforced disappearance or detention without trial.”
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack rejected the criticism.
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