Reply #5: Administration Officials all the way down to actual interrogators have ZERO legal cover.

[Delzars]

The United States is a signature party to the following international law: The UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Part 1, Article 2.2 & 2.3

2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture.

3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.

ARTICLE 4.1

1. Each State Party shall ensure that all acts of torture are offences under its criminal law. The same shall apply to an attempt to commit torture and to an act by any person which constitutes complicity or participation in torture.

2. Each State Party shall make these offences punishible by appropriate penalties which take into account their grave nature.

ARTICLE 10.1 & 2

1. Each State Party shall ensure that education and information regarding the prohibition against torture are fully included in the training of law enforcement personnel, civil or military, medical personnel, public officials and other persons who may be involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment.

2. Each State Party shall include this prohibition in the rules or instructions issued in regard to the duties and functions of any such person.


Listen to the dozens and dozens of excuses. Have you heard even ONE that is exempted from the above international law? If so, please post it.