A senior administration official said last week’s actions were meant to set the standard going forward for Trump’s human rights policy. The Trump list gets at some of the worst actors without being so expansive as to exacerbate the risk of abuse and overreach, Fried said. “And if the Trump administration gets credit for it, so be it.”The authors of the law, Sens. No matter how or why it happened, this is a step in the right direction for the Trump administration. Still, absent a comprehensive, organized and well-articulated human rights policy, it won’t be nearly enough.

Source: Washington Post December 25, 2017 00:32 UTC