Abstract

Prosecuting US Torture

Focuses on state-sanctioned acts of torture under United States President George W. Bush. Discussion of Task Force 6-26, a secret unit operating an off-the-books prison for detainees in Iraq; Statement that Task Force 6-26 has been implicated in two prisoner deaths; Reference to the torture of Iraqi detainees by U.S. soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; Report that detainees face systematic violence by trained interrogators; Statement that the International Committee of the Red Cross reports the use of physical and psychological coercion "tantamount to torture"; Claim that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's under secretary for intelligence, Stephen Cambone, had been informed of the beating of a prisoner in Iraq; Report that the Center for Constitutional Rights has turned to overseas human rights laws on behalf of Iraqi prisoners; Suggestion that transnational legal intervention is justified.