No Exceptional Circumstances Whatsoever... May Be Invoked as a Justification of Torture

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58. In my defense,

my post ("The United States...never ratified the Convention&quot was nothing more than a point of fact. The information came directly from the linked document in the OP.

I have readily conceded many times that I believe that torture is a crime under US statute and treaty law. The infamous Yoo memo is disgraceful and I reject its tortured attempt to finesse a justification for torture by redefining the language and words used to talk about it.

(Note : in hindsight, Ive tried to confirm whether or not The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted and opened for signature by General Assembly resolution on December 10, 1984, was ever actually ratified by the United States. As I said, the linked document in the OP says it wasn't. A Wikipedia article says it was ratified in 1994. I tried unsuccessfully to find a definitive record of a Senate ratification vote from 1994.)