What The Report On Terror Got Right And What It Got Wrong
Rebecca Gordon, Jan. 2, 2015, Contra Costa Times
It doesn't matter whether torture worked. Torture is illegal under U.S. and international law, and it is a moral abomination. The framers of the United Nations Convention Against Torture -- which this country ratified in 1994 -- knew that people (and nations) tend to forget their promises when they are afraid. That's why it includes these words: "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 of torture."
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It doesn't matter whether torture worked. Torture is illegal under U.S. and international law, and it is a moral abomination. The framers of the United Nations Convention Against Torture -- which this country ratified in 1994 -- knew that people (and nations) tend to forget their promises when they are afraid. That's why it includes these words: "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 of torture."
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