Human rights groups are beginning to question President Obama’s commitment to their issue as the administration engages authoritarian regimes, retains the option of sending terrorist suspects abroad to places where they might be tortured and puts off a presidential meeting with [fellow Nobel laureate and actual deity incarnate –.ed] the Dalai Lama…. Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, said he favors the engagement policy but also has concerns. “The president’s larger emphasis on engagement – that you should be talking to even those regimes that you hate the most – tends to empower those in the diplomatic corps whose core approach is making nice and handing out gold stars,” he said….