Editorial: Mike Pompeo's new panel on human rights is unnecessary and maybe dangerous
Champions of human rights around the world are reacting with understandable suspicion to Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo's announcement that he is creating a "Commission on Unalienable Rights" that will "ground our discussion of human rights in America's founding principles."
The first reason for concern is that Pompeo is part of an administration that has winked at gross human-rights violations by allies - such as the assassination of journalist
