Screwing with criminal justice systems

Not only are we screwing around with our own criminal justice system by allowing politics to influence prosecution decisions, we're trying to screw around with Germany's criminal justice system as well:

Senior US diplomats put pressure on Germany not to prosecute 13 people linked to the alleged CIA-backed abduction of a German, a German magazine reports in its issue appearing Monday.

The diplomats "repeatedly" contacted the German chancellery and justice ministry in recent weeks in a failed bid to block the issue of arrest warrants against the 13 suspected CIA co-workers, the news magazine Der Spiegel said.

It's good to see that somebody in the world was able to resist Bush.