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“…during 2002, Henry Kissinger found himself on the sharp end of the Pinochet case. Reportedly livid, a rattled Kissinger complained to his old chum Donald Rumsfeld, who was already worrying about ‘lawfare’… Rumsfeld instructed the chief lawyer at the Pentagon … to address the problems posed by this ‘judicialisation of international politics’ … [the issue] reached the National Security Council … the NSC couldn’t work out what to do about the problem. We now know that while this was going on, Rumsfeld and others at the Pentagon were secretly circumventing international laws like the Geneva conventions and the torture convention and removing international constraints on the interrogation of detainees at Guantánamo and in Iraq” – Sands in the Guardian/UK