Heritage experts meet with U.N. official
May 27, 2007| By Nathaniel Ward
The United Nations has once again appointed a “special rapporteur” to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the United States. Steven Groves, Heritage’s Lomas Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, explains in a new paper that a Finnish academic is visiting the country this week to prepare his report.
As part of its efforts to ensure the United Nations report is fair, a delegation of Heritage experts met with the investigator last week. “The discussion,” Groves reports, “covered a wide range of issues relating to the U.S. legal system, the Military Commissions Act, the Patriot Act, the REAL ID program, and other policies and practices relating to the war on terrorism.”
Groves insists that the special rapporteur “should take care to keep in mind U.S. sovereignty, the American constitutional system, and that system’s basis in the consent of the governed and not forsake these principles for ill-defined international norms to which the U.S. has never acceded.”
Nathaniel Ward is the Editor of MyHeritage.org—a website for members and supporters of The Heritage Foundation.