American tourists and businessmen in plenty of countries are often singled out by less-than-scrupulous law enforcement.
"The administration has paid scrupulous attention to law".
Trump has, famously, partnered with people who are not always overly scrupulous about the law.
It did not take long, however, for reports to surface that the CIA was shipping suspects around the world, using airports and bases of allied nations, to be interrogated either by Americans using "enhanced" techniques that seemed to amount to torture, or by other countries even less scrupulous about international law.
On those occasions "a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself…thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means".
Some of Mr Putin's past actions, too, suggest a less than scrupulous attitude to the law.
Penitential prayers (seliḥot) are recited prior to the daily morning service, and, in general, scrupulous observance of the Law is expected during the period.
Wherever he stopped along the way, he proclaimed a twofold message: strict adherence to the doctrine of the oneness of God (hence the name Almohads or al-Muwaḥḥidūn, Unitarians) and scrupulous observance of Islāmic law.
GCHQ declined to comment on the claims but said its compliance with the law was "scrupulous".
But GCHQ has said its compliance with the law was "scrupulous".
He predicted a glorious future for the Third Reich and concluded, chillingly, "Above all I charge the leaders of the nation and those under them to scrupulous observance of the laws of race and to merciless opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry".
