"Failure to Prosecute Senior U.S. Government Officials for Torture Violates International Law" (2014)
>In preparation for the UN Committee Against Torture’s review of the United States, the International Human Rights Clinic has joined fellow members of the group Advocates for U.S. Torture Prosecutions in submitting a shadow report to the UN Committee. The report documents how the Obama administration is in clear violation of the law by shielding from criminal liability the senior government officials responsible for the post-9/11 US torture program.
The article refers to things being offered and to that being a deal that was struck, and makes no effort to clarify if the offer is the deal, is part of the deal, or is outside of the deal.
The first two paragraphs are “X was offered; the deal was reached.” The rest of the article throws a lot of additional stuff back and forth but does very little to clarify things.
From the US state department readout on their own website it appears that the headline offer is not part of the deal, but everything else describes is part of the deal, but the article works pretty hard to obscure that.
palmfacehn|1 year ago
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/canadian-torture...
"Canadian Torture and Rendition Victim Denied Supreme Court Review" (2010)
>This morning, the Supreme Court announced that it would not hear the case of extraordinary rendition victim Maher Arar.
https://humanrightsclinic.law.harvard.edu/failure-to-prosecu...
"Failure to Prosecute Senior U.S. Government Officials for Torture Violates International Law" (2014)
>In preparation for the UN Committee Against Torture’s review of the United States, the International Human Rights Clinic has joined fellow members of the group Advocates for U.S. Torture Prosecutions in submitting a shadow report to the UN Committee. The report documents how the Obama administration is in clear violation of the law by shielding from criminal liability the senior government officials responsible for the post-9/11 US torture program.
dragonwriter|1 year ago
The first two paragraphs are “X was offered; the deal was reached.” The rest of the article throws a lot of additional stuff back and forth but does very little to clarify things.
From the US state department readout on their own website it appears that the headline offer is not part of the deal, but everything else describes is part of the deal, but the article works pretty hard to obscure that.
cdme|1 year ago