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Moonliner · 05-14-2009, 02:16 PM

Question:

Was the Waterboarding of prisoners at Guantanamo during the Bush Administration illegal under US law?

The only law I found passed by congress was that the US ratified the UN's Convention Against Torture but that ratification was filled with weasel words like "not self-executing"

So is there a clear smoking gun to use to prosecute government officials or not?

05-14-2009, 02:16 PM	#4426
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