U.S. interrogation tactics slammed

This is an article about the Human Rights Watch report slamming the U.S. as a Human Rights violator.

Estanislo Oziewicz writes:

The U.S. government's strategy of abusing terror suspects during interrogation has seriously undermined its credibility as a global defender of human rights, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. The conclusion was swiftly dismissed by the White House, which accused the New York-based rights watchdog of playing politics.

The report says that while the United States was not the worst violator of the international ban on torture -- China, among others, is lambasted as the world leader in executions -- it is the most influential.

"In 2005, it became disturbingly clear that the abuse of detainees had become a deliberate, central part of the Bush administration's strategy for interrogating terrorist suspects. . . . Other governments obviously subject detainees to such treatment or worse, but they do so clandestinely."

Evidence showed that abusive interrogation cannot be rationalized as the wrongs of a few low-level soldiers, the report says, but that it was a deliberate policy by senior U.S. government officials. The policy has made it easier for other states to likewise disrespect international law, says the 532-page report's introduction.

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U.S. interrogation tactics slammed

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