What we are likely to get, if Bush is wise enough to ask for it, is Congressional approval of overseas trials of terrorist leaders by military courts adhering to basic standards of U.S. military justice.
The cheaper costs of overseas trials may be a particularly powerful incentive: This year alone, because of patent expirations, the drug industry will lose control over mega-medicines with combined annual sales of some $50 billion.
"Ms Brannigan gave me several examples of how the government could better assist her and other families in similarly difficult circumstances, including the appointment of family liaison officers, an amendment to the Victims' Charter, more written information, counselling services and monitoring of overseas trials by our diplomatic staff.
In the first American lawsuit seeking damages for an unethical overseas drug trial, 30 Nigerian families sued Pfizer in Manhattan's Federal District Court for treating their children with an experimental antibiotic during a 1996 meningitis epidemic in Kano, Nigeria, that took more than 15,000 lives.
It is this targeted killing of American citizens overseas without trial that Brennan refused to address in his hearing and that has drawn the most ire of certain members from both parties in Congress.
These UAVs, along with Predator drones and others, form the backbone of the targeted killing program used by the U.S. government to kill an American citizen overseas without trial and to conduct "double-tap" strikes people simply guilty of being, "a male of military age in an area where 'militant' organizations are believed to operate".
On December 7 , 1960 Sim held a briefing with the Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, in which he elaborated plans for overseas LSD trials, and it was agreed that they would be conducted in Europe, with the participation of European intelligence agencies.
Mr Cameron added: "We will correct in the Immigration Bill the fact that it is so difficult to deport people who don't have a right to be here and should be facing trial overseas or should be deported overseas but make spurious arguments about the right to a family life.
The case was seen as a test of detention and interrogation policies developed under the Obama administration to capture terrorism suspects overseas for criminal trial.
