Monday, March 16, 2009

Red Cross Uses the 'T' Word

By the "T" word, I mean that they used the word torture to describe the treatment of detainees by the CIA:
The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document.

The report, an account alleging physical and psychological brutality inside CIA "black site" prisons, also states that some U.S. practices amounted to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." Such maltreatment of detainees is expressly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.
(emphasis mine)

When do we either start prosecutions, or turn them over the Hague?

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