US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that no-one should doubt America's commitment to justice and the rule of law . . . .

Her comments came during a visit to the UK city of Blackburn. The tour has sparked anti-war protests.

"President Bush has stated unequivocally, as have I, that the United States is a nation of laws and we do not tolerate any American at home or abroad engaging in acts of torture," Ms Rice said.

"We also have no desire to be the world's jailer. We want the terrorists we capture to stand trial for their crimes," she said.

--source

nowhere in the piece is there anything about renditions. 'just goes to show you just how much the media is so lapdog with bush - frankly, it's nauseating.

oh, i wanted to post something that went with this story:

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to go to a foreign country to proclaim the United States a nation of laws while at home she represents a putative leader whose power rests on a stolen election and who claims some mythic constitutional authority to violate any law that doesn't suit him.

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to say that we will not tolerate torture when the White House memos told this same tyrant that he has the authority to authorize torture and he proceeded to do so.

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to go abroad and talk of freedom while the Patriot Act erodes civil liberties in America.

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to claim that America does not want to be the worlds when, in addition to torturing detainees, it puts them before kangaroo courts with no right to see the evidence against them.

It is a sad sign of how far America has fallen that Dr. Rice, who was one of many high-ranking officials in the Bush regime to willfully lie to the American people about Saddam's military capabilities in order to garner popular and congressional support for an unnecessary colonial war, should be so smug talking about somebody else's commission of war crimes.

--JackRabbit