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In its 2008 Report on Human Rights, this is what the U.S. State Department said while condemning Egypt:

Article 42 of the [Egyptian] constitution prohibits the infliction of "physical or moral harm" upon persons who have been arrested or detained; however, the law fails to account for mental or psychological abuse, abuse against persons who have not been formally accused, or abuse occurring for reasons other than securing a confession. Police, security personnel, and prison guards routinely tortured and abused prisoners and detainees, especially in cases of detentions under the Emergency Law, which authorizes incommunicado detention for prolonged periods. The government rarely held security officials accountable, and officials often operated with impunity.

Egypt tortures prisoners, subjects them to mental and psychological abuse, detains them incommunicado for long periods, and then -- to top it all off -- doesn't even investigate or prosecute those who do that, but instead allows them to "operate with impunity." What kind of monsters could do something like that? Thankfully, our State Department is vigilantly documenting and condemning this behavior, though -- as Fred Hiatt righteously asks -- why aren't we, the United States, doing more to bring this wretched and lawless behavior from Egypt to light?

The State Department Report went on to note:

Although the [Egyptian] government investigated torture complaints in some criminal cases and punished some offending police officers, punishments generally did not conform to the seriousness of the offenses.

Permit me to repeat that this Report -- complaining that Egypt's criminal punishments for its torturers did not go far enough -- was issued by the State Department of the United States. This is what else we are bitterly protesting in Egypt:

The constitution prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention; however, during the year, police and security forces engaged in such practices, including large-scale detentions of hundreds of individuals without charge under the Emergency Law, which was extended on April 26 for two more years.

Egypt detained people -- hundreds of them -- without charges, in violation of their own Constitution! The year before, we formally condemned Vladimir Putin's government for eavesdropping on Rusisan citizens without warrants even though Russian law requires warrants, and then -- more tyrannically still -- "there were no reports of government action against officials who violated these safeguards." The sheer lawlessness that exists in the rest of the world is so very upsetting.

  Glenn Greenwald

And permit me to note that critical report was released by the State Department in 2008.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.