pakistan is changing. in the little time that it has had to develop democratic institutions, such as a strong judiciary, it has done amazingly well. imagine what it could have accomplished over 60 yrs of uninterrupted democracy… this is such an emotional case. people were crying uncontrollably when the 7 men were presented in court.
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Virtually without exception, the American judiciary has refused to allow any victims of America’s War on Terror abuses — whether foreign national or American citizen — to even have their claims heard in court….But consider the extraordinary — and now distinctly un-American — event that just happened in Pakistan, from CNN, today: Seven men detained by Pakistan’s spy agency, the ISI, appeared in court Monday in a landmark case that places one of the nation’s most powerful institutions under the scrutiny of its highest court… Yet this type of accountability just brought to Pakistan’s intelligence service is simply inconceivable in the United States. It is virtually impossible to imagine the U.S. Supreme Court ordering the CIA to disclose documents about its treatment of detainees or, even more unrealistically, to permit the victims of CIA abuse to have their grievances heard in court. More here.