Some are deemed too dangerous to release, but cannot easily be prosecuted.
According to a witness statement by a senior Foreign Office official – which was also kept secret at the original court hearings in 2010 – the decision to comply with Saleh's request was taken by then Labour foreign secretary David Miliband and armed forces Minister Bill Rammell on the grounds that the prisoner could more easily be prosecuted in Kabul.
Democrats, on the other hand, pointed out that rioting is already a crime, and individuals who cause property damage and commit assault during protests could easily be prosecuted individually.
On Friday Balpa called for a registration system so drone users can be easily traced and prosecuted for any irresponsible flying.
She could, she speculated, just as easily have been prosecuted for promoting underage prostitution, illegal abortion, gay love, pedophilia, extreme parental abuse, or incest — all of which have been the subjects of her fiction.
You can still, however, go out and purchase pepper spray or bear mace fairly easily, and almost nobody is prosecuted for using it in legitimate defense situations.
Thereby, they clearly have a stronger impact on the more easily accessible and spacious limestone plateau than on the narrower and more densely populated coastal zone where seized cattle herds cannot be easily deported and crime can be prosecuted more successfully.
In other words, many of those prosecuted for drug delivery deaths could easily have been overdose victim themselves.
So right now, Obama is free to ban torture as he sees fit, but since the risk of being prosecuted has essentially been taken off the table, the next president could just as easily reverse that.
