Let the fun begin.
Manfred Nowak, the top torture investigator for the U.N., says that President Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA officers who tortured terror suspects under the Bush administration is a violation of international law.
CBS reports:
In a brief telephone interview with The Associated Press, Manfred Nowak, an Austrian who serves as a U.N. special rapporteur in Geneva, said the United States had committed itself under the U.N. Convention against Torture to make torture a crime and to prosecute those suspected of engaging in it.
"They are party to the convention and the convention is very, very clear," Nowak said when asked to confirm comments contained in an interview he gave Austria's Der Standard newspaper. "The fact that you carried out an order doesn't relieve you of your responsibility," he said, adding it could be a mitigating factor.
A violation of international law and certainly our own. But, given the prevailing attitude of sticking one's head in the sand and not talking a stand based on a respect of law we, as a Country, may be shamed into acting.
CBS News