"This report provides yet more damning detail of some of the human rights violations that were authorized by the highest authorities in the U.S.A. after 9/11," said Amnesty International's director for the Americas, Erika Guevara Rosas.
"They do things that are authorized by statute and by findings that we're not organized, trained or equipped to do and don't want to do".
Ensuring that searches authorized by an international body are constitutional -- and that they don't become tools of espionage or simple harassment -- is a stiff challenge.
Mr. Yushchenko had labeled the deaths a genocide against the Ukrainian people that was authorized by Stalin in an effort to weaken Ukraine and ensure that it would remain under Soviet authority.
The suit -- in which the Justice Department joined private whistle-blower suits against the company -- said that the payment issues had been uncovered in an investigation of HealthSouth that was authorized by Medicare officials in 1998.
All of the techniques that were authorized by the president were, in effect, blessed by the Justice Department opinion that we could go forward with those without, in fact, committing torture.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has defended the controversial stop-and-frisk tactic and has said that it "is a proven law enforcement tactic to fight and deter crime, one that is authorized by criminal procedure law".
The group said it holds only protests that are authorized by the government.
They have said, for instance, that laws authorized by the Constitution's commerce clause must be economic in nature, must concern interstate commerce and must address national problems.
