Habeas Corpus: Don't Leave Home Without It?

—By Dave Gilson

| Wed Nov. 28, 2007 4:29 PM PST
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Is it me, or is this American Express ad trying to turn extraordinary rendition, black sites, and military tribunals into a tagline? Or is it just a sad reminder that even a credit-card company is more committed to due process than the U.S. government? (Spotted on the Vanity Fair website, where I was considering equally unsettling images of Christopher Hitchens getting his inner thighs waxed. Seriously.)

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