As we’ve blogged before<\/A>, the Indian prime minister’s daughter, Amrit Singh, works for the ACLU in New York and is currently tracking down abuse at Abu Ghraib. Yesterday, her team released an FBI email<\/A> from May 2004 that says President Bush personally authorized torture at Abu Ghraib:<\/P>\n India just loves to jawbone the U.S. out of a sense of false moral superiority, and it’s completely counterproductive to her own interests. But the Abu Ghraib case is an exception: the disregard for our city on a hill ideal went much higher than the few soldiers scapegoated. I applaud Ms. Singh and, although she’s not an official spokesperson for the Indian government, caution her dad to prepare for the inevitable reprisals.<\/P>\n The Times of India<\/EM> recently profiled Ms. Singh<\/A>:<\/P>\n As we’ve blogged before, the Indian prime minister’s daughter, Amrit Singh, works for the ACLU in New York and is currently tracking down abuse at Abu Ghraib. Yesterday, her team released an FBI email from May 2004 that says President Bush personally authorized torture at Abu … Continue reading The two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order states that the President directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and “sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc.”… The FBI e-mail, which was sent in May 2004 from “On Scene Commander–Baghdad” to a handful of senior FBI officials, notes that the FBI has prohibited its agents from employing the techniques that the President is said to have authorized…<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n
Singh, who is the Prime Minister’s third daughter, studied law at Yale and has kept a relatively low profile in the US, seemingly unaffected by her father’s dramatic political ascendancy… His economist friend Jagdish Bhagwati, who teaches at Columbia University, thinks Amrit is as brilliant as her father during his youth.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"