
PARIS, Nov. 12 -- The methods used to blacklist terrorist suspects by the United Nations and European Union are "totally arbitrary" and "violate the fundamental principles of human rights and rule of law," a European human rights panel said Monday.
The Council of Europe's legal committee urged an international overhaul of regulations for blacklisting individuals and groups to provide them access to evidence, rights to a fair trial or impartial review within a reasonable time, and compensation for wrongful designation as a terrorist.
Thompson calls terrorism his No. 1 priority. On a visit to Spartanburg, S.C., he left open the possibility of authorizing waterboarding, which simulates drowning, in interrogations. "It sounds awful to me," he said. "But I assure you that if innocent lives are at stake, and there's a ticking time bomb, and we have a terrorist, and our intelligence is good enough for us to be certain that he knows where that ticking time bomb is, we're going to find out where it is."
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