Bush on torturePresident Bush (Sept. 6, 2006): I want to be absolutely clear with our people and the world, the United States does not torture. It?s against our laws, and it?s against our values. I have not authorized it, and I will not authorize it.
U.K. Parliamentary report on Human Rights:We conclude that, given the clear differences in definition, the UK can no longer rely on US assurances that it does not use torture, and we recommend that the Government does not rely on such assurances in the future. We also recommend that the Government should immediately carry out an exhaustive analysis of current US interrogation techniques on the basis of such information as is publicly available or which can be supplied by the US.
A question I have is the same as one a commenter suggests at the Balkinization blog where I linked to for the item on this report: Why the hell is the U.S. Congress not uncovering the fact that Bush statements on U.S. torture practice are false and unreliable? Why does the job fall to the U.K. Parliament? It's a damn shameful situation.
Posted by The Owl at 15:23. Filed under: Torture
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