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What is the word or term for a situation where the fox is guarding he hen house?
Organized Crime?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — The Supreme Court today turned down the chance to elaborate for the first time in more than 50 years on the “state secrets privilege” by refusing to hear an appeal filed on behalf of Khaled el-Masri, who claims he was abducted and tortured by United States agents while imprisoned in Afghanistan.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pres._Carter_US_tortures_prisoners_I_1010.html
Former president Jimmy Carter isn't just suspicious that the US is using torture to extract intelligence from detainees -- he's absolutely convinced.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/10/lieberman-has-no-plans-to_n_67825.html
Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who chairs the Senate committee responsible for government oversight, says he has no plans to investigate Blackwater and other Iraq war contractors accused of potentially criminal wrongdoing. Roll Call reports (sub req'd):