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The evidence from the DoJ memos, In't Red Cross reports, comments by some interrogators and other sources is clear that we used techniques including water boarding, long term sleep deprivation, physical abuse, psychological abuse, etc that violated the international standards of torture under the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention against Torture.
Not just at Gitmo, but at CIA black prisons around the world...far worse than anything that happened at Abu Ghraib. The DOJ memos attempt to rationalize these actions by unilaterally determining its own standards under those international treaty obligations of which the US is a signator.
That is not how a nation that promotes democracy and the rule of law should act.
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