“In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, we [the US] regrettably did not always live up to our own values, including those reflected in the [Geneva] Convention,” Mary McLeod, US acting legal adviser from the US Department of State, told Committee Against Torture , a UN body that aims to prevent torture and inhuman treatment around the world. “As President Obama has acknowledged, we crossed the line and we take responsibility for that,” she said. Ten independent experts from the UN anti-torture body gathered to ‘grill’ some 30 senior US officials, including McLeod, in Geneva, Switzerland, for the first...
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