GIVE US YOUR TIRED, POOR ...

The Washington Post reports today that former Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson, "in his capacity as acting attorney general," signed the order to send a Syrian-born Canadian citizen to Syria, where his torture was all but assured, based on his alleged links to al-Qaida operatives.

U.S. law prohibits such deportations if there is a likelihood the suspect will be tortured, something the State Department found was the case in its own reports, dated March 31, 2003. (See section 1c.)