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America as Torture Central: From Prisons to "Black Sites" - Informed Comment

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Amnesty International report on global torture exposes inhumane acts perpetrated by United States

Despite a vow to "restore America's moral standing" in the world, Obama's administration has ended its pursuit of US personnel accused of abusing prisoners. Eric Holder, the US attorney-general, said 2 years ago that the admissible evidence would not be sufficient to obtain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt.

An investigation that initially looked at 101 cases, in the end examined just two -- that of Gul Rahman, who died in a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan in 2002, and Manadel al-Jamadi, who died in CIA custody at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.

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