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Red Cross Described "Torture" at CIA Jails

Secret report implies that US violated international law.
The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document. Read more...

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.