A Tortured History Pursues George W. Bush | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

A Tortured History Pursues George W. Bush | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Switzerland, like the United States, is a signatory to the international Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. And every nation signing this treaty is required to prosecute anyone, including government officials, who have been involved in 'complicity or participation in torture.'

Moreover, the Convention makes it unmistakably clear that 'no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war ... or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.'"