Extraordinary rendition redux

And these lawyers can sleep at night how, exactly?

Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.

From Teresa Nielsen-Hayden, who quotes a UK friend as saying: "Being a middle-aged white woman is kind of like having civil rights, but not really an adequate substitute."