Safir on ABC Good Morning America, August 18, 1997; quoted in Human Rights Watch, "New York", Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States, 1998.
"The United States has long considered waterboarding to be torture and a war crime." Human Rights Watch, "U.S.: Vice President Endorses Torture," October 26, 2006.
"Graduates of the School of the Americas include military officers and leaders implicated in torture and mass murder in Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Argentina and Haiti, among other Latin American countries." Miles Schuman, "Abu Ghraib: the rule, not the exceptionArchived 2007-12-14 at the Wayback Machine," Globe and Mail (Toronto), May 14, 2004.
The United States was one of the primary sponsors of a Convention to prohibit torture and to protect human rights.Report ; See In Matter of J-E, discussed herein.
"Graduates of the School of the Americas include military officers and leaders implicated in torture and mass murder in Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Argentina and Haiti, among other Latin American countries." Miles Schuman, "Abu Ghraib: the rule, not the exceptionArchived 2007-12-14 at the Wayback Machine," Globe and Mail (Toronto), May 14, 2004.
