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Source: BBC News
America's first homeland security secretary has accepted some criticisms of the US "war on terror" made in a recent report by legal experts.
Tom Ridge told the BBC that the report's attacks on extended detention and torture were justified.
But he also said the US had been dealing with a new kind of threat.
The report the International Commission of Jurists said anti-terror measures worldwide had seriously undermined international human rights law.
Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7903516.stm
America's first homeland security secretary has accepted some criticisms of the US "war on terror" made in a recent report by legal experts.
Tom Ridge told the BBC that the report's attacks on extended detention and torture were justified.
But he also said the US had been dealing with a new kind of threat.
The report the International Commission of Jurists said anti-terror measures worldwide had seriously undermined international human rights law.
Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7903516.stm