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

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63. I understand that you were'nt attacking me.

My source was the link provided in the OP. Your google habits sound very close to mine. I google to see different perspectives. I google to confirm claims. In this case, I didn't google to cross-check the plain and direct claim made in Bigtree's source that the United States hadn't ratified the Convention.

As it turns out, the United States senate ratified the Convention on October 21, 1994, "...subject to certain declarations, reservations, and understandings, including a declaration that CAT Articles 1 through 16 were not self-executing, and therefore required domestic implementing legislation."

Bigtrees's source link was not up to date and my information was not correct.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl32276.pdf