State Department’s Annual Human Rights Report Released
The State Department’s 2007 annual human rights country reports were released yesterday. Recall that a Washington Post columnist recently printed some leaked e-mails in which Glyn Davies of the State Department’s odious Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP) had tried to lean on the authors of the report to “sacrifice a few adjectives for the cause.” Words to have been eliminated are in brackets, those to have been added are in italics: “The [repressive] North Korean government[regime] continued...