The United Nations Human Rights Council and African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights should open independent commissions of inquiry into Sinai, given the failure of Egyptian authorities to do so. ..…

Bush, whose NSC once again embraced the council’s more assertive tactics. Once Bush declared war on Afghanistan and Iraq, the NSC—directed for the first time by an African-American woman, the Stanford political scientist Condoleezza Rice—bent the common law by “operating in war..…