Video - Jimmy Carter: America Tortures

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Video
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2007/10/10/tsr.carter.int.cnn

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/10/10/carter-america-tortures
Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday he is convinced the United States engages in torture that clearly breaches international law and told CNN President Bush creates his own definition of human rights to escape violating them.

"I don't think it. I know it, certainly." the former president told CNN's Wolf Blitzer when asked if he thinks the United States commits torture.

"Our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," Carter continued. "We've said that the Geneva Convention does not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we’ve said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused."

Carter's comments come on the heels of a New York Times report that disclosed the existence of secret Justice Department documents supporting the use of "harsh interrogation techniques" including, according to the Times, "head-slapping, simulated drowning, and frigid temperatures."

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1. why is it not appropriate to bring charges against international lawbreakers?

i dont get it. Why? Because they are american elites? That is so very wrong.