In the eyes of the World, we are now an outlaw nation.

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69. "Russian authorities" assassinate journalists?

And "all the orgs" mentioned in the article in the OP, namely the UN and some NGOs, have "given evidence of this"?

Wow, makes me wonder why Congress needs to pass resolutions urging the President to further increase the funding of CIA-connected propaganda outfits such as "RFE" and "Voice of America".

Here is what the UN Special Rapporteur actually said, on the actual topic at hand, concise and clear, without further distractions:

International law prohibits the granting of immunities to public officials who have engaged in acts of torture. This applies not only to the actual perpetrators but also to those senior officials within the US Government who devised, planned and authorised these crimes.

As a matter of international law, the US is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice. The UN Convention Against Torture and the UN Convention on Enforced Disappearances require States to prosecute acts of torture and enforced disappearance where there is sufficient evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction. States are not free to maintain or permit impunity for these grave crimes.

It is no defence for a public official to claim that they were acting on superior orders. CIA officers who physically committed acts of torture therefore bear individual criminal responsibility for their conduct, and cannot hide behind the authorisation they were given by their superiors.

However, the heaviest penalties should be reserved for those most seriously implicated in the planning and purported authorisation of these crimes. Former Bush Administration officials who have admitted their involvement in the programme should also face criminal prosecution for their acts.

President Obama made it clear more than five years ago that the US Government recognises the use of waterboarding as torture. There is therefore no excuse for shielding the perpetrators from justice any longer. The US Attorney General is under a legal duty to bring criminal charges against those responsible.

Torture is a crime of universal jurisdiction. The perpetrators may be prosecuted by any other country they may travel to. However, the primary responsibility for bringing them to justice rests with the US Department of Justice and the Attorney General.

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

If the US don't act, they can babble about bad, bad Putin all day long but nobody will listen.