San Francisco Chronicle, November 18, 2009 by Jamie Rowen
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/18/EDG91AM0FI.DTL

Something odd has happened in the United States. Not only did government lawyers create the legal fiction of enemy combatant and claim that torture—widely held to be a jus cogens crime (meaning there is no excuse)—is justifiable, now certain lawmakers are questioning the validity of a court of law to redress mass human rights violations. These lawmakers are undermining decades of jurisprudence that defines war crimes and provides the legal foundations for international criminal justice.