Source: AP
VIENNA (AP) — The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to
prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies
that approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism
suspects, the U.N.'s top anti-torture envoy said Friday.
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama left the door open to
prosecuting Bush administration officials who devised the legal
authority for gruesome terror-suspect interrogations. He had
previously absolved CIA officers from prosecution.
Manfred Nowak, who serves as a U.N. special rapporteur in Geneva, said
Washington is obligated under the U.N. Convention against Torture to
prosecute U.S. Justice Department officials who wrote memos that
defined torture in the narrowest way in order to justify and
legitimize it, and who assured CIA officials that their use of
questionable tactics was legal.
"That's exactly what I call complicity or participation" to torture as
defined by the convention, Nowak said at a news conference. "At that
time, every reasonable person would know that waterboarding, for
instance, is torture."
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