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Originally Posted by AllTheCheese
Thread title seems bad, as the entire point of the article appears to be the suggestion that US is leaving the torture to Yemeni govt and others. Maybe "US Forces Turning a Blind Eye to Torture in Yemen?"
If it's just what the accusation states it is likely still a war crime.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...rture-48200048
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None of the dozens of people interviewed by AP contended that American interrogators were involved in the actual abuses. Nevertheless, obtaining intelligence that may have been extracted by torture inflicted by another party would violate the International Convention Against Torture and could qualify as war crimes, said Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University who served as special counsel to the Defense Department until last year
Having just read
No good men among the living about Afghanistan I'm pretty skeptical that the US didn't actively participate in the torture. It may well have been there just as much before, but at least since GWB, Cheney, John Yoo, and Alberto Gonzalez torture has been part of the American way.