Editorials.

In this article, the author focuses on the Center for Constitutional Rights (C.C.R.) The C.C.R.'s suits are stirring gestures of legal aikido, using U.S. law as a weapon against U.S. foreign policy. But wielding U.S. legal power over officials of other nations is at best an ambiguous and imperial solution to crimes that at once embody and transcend national interests. Torturers and death squads carry out their crimes under a triple shield of immunity. They are protected against the paper laws of their own countries; they enjoy the patronage of large corporations and powers, principally but not exclusively the U.S. government.