CIA Torturers Cannot Escape Justice: UN Envoy

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Alwaght- US officials involved in torturing international suspects cannot escape justice forever, a top UN human rights official, Juan Mendez says.
Mendez slammed the US government for failing to take legal action against agents working for the country’s spy agency, CIA , who perpetrated brutal acts of torture that was detailed in the US government’s own report – a damning probe that was released a year ago this week.
“I’m certainly disappointed that the official policy of the US is to consider that bygones be bygones and to let torturers off the hook, but I wouldn’t say that this will never happen,” Mendez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, told MEE on Sunday.
“Conditions have to fall into place before you can insist on prosecuting perpetrators of mass atrocities and I believe the conditions will, sooner or later, be such that in the US there’ll be justice for the torture that occurred under the so-called global War on Terror.”
Last December, the US Senate Intelligence Committee released a 500-page summary of a report that found the CIA had used sleep deprivation, “rectal rehydration” , threats of sexual violence toward the family members of detainees, waterboarding and other cruel practices on 119 detainees as it reacted to the September 11 strikes on New York and Washington.
Days ago Human Rights Watch said there’s evidence to warrant criminal investigations and eventually charges against those responsible for CIA torture of people detained in the so called war on terror. The report challenges claims by the Obama administration that legal obstacles prevent such criminal investigations.
The CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program occurred during George W. Bush’s presidency from 2002-07. It involved flying captured terrorism suspects to secret “black site” jails for interrogation beyond US borders.
United Nations envoy on counter-terrorism and human rights Ben Emmerson has also said CIA officials involved in the torture of prisoners and former Bush administration officials who knew about the practices should be prosecuted.

According to numerous public reports, these torture programs were authorized at the highest levels of the US government, and carried out in far-flung foreign places to avoid domestic detection and to muddy the issues of custody status and jurisdiction. This clearly shows a premeditated and intentional conspiracy to knowingly violate US law, and to avoid any oversight and criminal liability.

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