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Post by obama on Jan 5, 2015 6:17:00 GMT
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Post by obama on Jan 5, 2015 6:17:35 GMT
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Post by obama on Jan 5, 2015 6:18:49 GMT
DEC. 21, 2014. NY Times: Prosecute Torturers and Their BossesAmericans have known about many of these acts for years, but the 524-page executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report erases any lingering doubt about their depravity and illegality: In addition to new revelations of sadistic tactics like “rectal feeding,” scores of detainees were waterboarded, hung by their wrists, confined in coffins, sleep-deprived, threatened with death or brutally beaten. In November 2002, one detainee who was chained to a concrete floor died of “suspected hypothermia.”
These are, simply, crimes. They are prohibited by federal law, which defines torture as the intentional infliction of “severe physical or mental pain or suffering.” They are also banned by the Convention Against Torture, the international treaty that the United States ratified in 1994 and that requires prosecution of any acts of torture.
History Commons: Torture, Rendition, and other Abuses against Captives in US Custody
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