Suspects were given electric shocks to the testicles, raped with bottles and often beaten to death.
The administration's insistence that United Nations sanctions against Libya be retained does not make a huge practical difference, because those sanctions were suspended when the suspects were given up.
Why, he asked, should Mr. Mohammed and the other suspects be given "the extraordinary protections that you and I have as American citizens?" "Yes, I think that's a bad decision," he said.
(Mr. Olson nonetheless privately counseled that terrorism suspects be given certain basic legal rights, administration officials said, correctly predicting that failure to do so would lead to Supreme Court setbacks).
Descriptions of the suspect were given to the Portuguese inquiry by two witnesses after Madeleine disappeared.
Last week a Jewish settler sentenced to life imprisonment for an execution-style killing of a Palestinian terror suspect was given parole after seven years in prison.
A judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in 2009, backed up by the House of Lords, limited permissible restrictions and insisted the suspect be given sufficient access to the "gist" of the allegations against him to instruct counsel.
Details of the suspect were given at a press conference by Germany's interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, but police officials later said they were unsure whether the man in custody had committed the attack.
We need to look equally carefully at the account the suspect is giving, look at the context, look at the pattern of behaviour, make the necessary links and think about how a case can be be built".
With these increasingly lax regulations, we have enabled a culture of vigilantism in which incompetent, morally suspect shooters are given free reign.
