This just in: we torture

(Via WaPo)

Cripes, whatever happened to the Friday news dump?

The news is just raining sh!t today...

Red Cross Described 'Torture' at CIA Jails
Secret Report Implies That U.S. Violated International Law

The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document. 

The report, an account alleging physical and psychological brutality inside CIA "black site" prisons, also states that some U.S. practices amounted to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." Such maltreatment of detainees is expressly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.

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Often using the detainee's own words, the report offers a harrowing view of conditions at the secret prisons, where prisoners were told they were being taken "to the verge of death and back," according to one excerpt.

 Okay, the allegation is not new but an ICRC report getting to the public is a bit of a deal.

This means the US government was advised in 2007 that the ICRC thought we were committing torture.

Kinda makes us look bad. Kinda makes former VP Cheney look like an idiot.