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Criminal

Jun. 25, 2004

Tainted by Torture

Two Bush administration lawyers who had a hand in once-secret memoranda that attempted to justify the torture of enemy combatants have seen their careers take very different paths.

        "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." - Article 2, U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment. Adopted by the U.N. in 1984, ratified by the U.S. in 1994
By Pamela A. MacLean and Brent Kendall
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