But as the nation's chief lawenforcer, he should know that harsh punishment is the appropriate response when anyone violates the rights of a citizen as badly as prosecutors did in the Stevens case.
"The U.S. military ... still mainly sees the police as an auxiliary security force rather than an enforcer of thelaw, " the International Crisis Group concluded in a report posted Thursday on its Web site.
The Supreme Court in Delhi, which so mistrusts the state that it has become a maker and enforcer of law as well as its ultimate interpreter, now monitors such transfers.