The Russian Foreign Ministry just posted a scathing overview of
the United States' human rights violation -- many of them
obviously reference Guantánamo Bay and the Patriot Act -- that
sort of reads like an old issue of The Nation Magazine. It's not
nearly as scary as those times in the 1960s when the Soviet
Union used to threaten us with nuclear bombs and stuff, but that
wasn't meant to be the point.  Reuters' Moscow bureau explains
that the report is really meant to counter the annual white
paper the State Department releases every year "on the state of
human rights in the world, often with scathing analyses of
abuses in China and Russia" and "is unlikely to harm ties with
its former Cold War foe." We'll let you draw your own
conclusions about Russia's reporting, and we're quoting the new
63-page document, on how "The White House and the Justice
Department shelter from prosecution CIA operatives and highly
placed officials who are responsible for mass and flagrant
breaches of human rights." Meanwhile, have