The last series of the Limits of the Law and tonight Jane Mayer came to talk about her book "The Dark Side". I am disappointed to say that she was a terrible public speaker and read her whole 35 minute speech with hardly looking up at the audience. The Q&A she was much more relaxed. I had to stare at my knee and listen to her voice talk eloquently about U.S policies on torture and the crimes that a group of people have committed. Unfortunately, they are not being convicted or put on trial and neither are the victims (some innocent other not) of our prosecution. Perhaps the most striking comment of the whole evening was the fact that we, the U.S has allowed human rights violations to continue, when they are an affront to our core identity as a nation of just laws and liberty.
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