What Steve said.
My first question when I heard this was: "Was she even denied asylum for anything resembling an appropriate reason, or, like many female asylum-seekers, was she denied asylum because little things like rape, genital mutilation, and forced marriage are (generally) considered a state of womanhood so normal that they don't qualify women for sanctuary from that 'normalcy'?"
And my second: "Who in the Bush administration acted unethically, and quite possibly criminally, to make this information public, anyway?"
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