CNN.com - Rights group: U.S. arguments resemble terrorists'

Human Rights Watch said the administration is using the same argument as terrorists -- that the ends justify the means -- to achieve its goals, and faulted the United States' treatment of combat prisoners and its handling of criminal suspects. The group also pointed to civilian deaths in U.S. combat operations overseas.

Wrongfully refused to apply the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War to Afghanistan detainees

Among many other actions, this administration has

Misused the legal concept of enemy combatants to detain criminal suspects in the United States

Used "stress and duress" interrogation techniques on prisoners overseas

Misused immigration laws to deny rights to criminal suspects in the United States