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Freedom house, rocked: strange doings at a cherished institution.(Organization overview)

National Review

| April 02, 2007 | Miller, John J. | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SHORTLY after 9/11, a pair of scholars at Freedom House expressed their dismay with two leading liberal human-rights groups. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch seemed keener to denounce U.S. policies than to condemn terrorism, claimed Adrian Karatnycky and Arch Puddington. Amnesty International, for example, publicly opposed the extradition of Osama bin Laden to the United States--unless he could be guaranteed immunity from the death penalty. "To judge by what [the two groups] have said since September 11, they are far from recognizing the character of the enemy against which the civilized world now finds itself arrayed," they wrote in Commentary. "Instead, at ...

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