When the to defend its human rights record, State Department legal advisor Harold Koh assured the world that the U.S. had 鈥渢horoughly investigated鈥 alleged abuses of detainees in U.S. custody, and that 鈥渁ppropriate corrective action has been taken.鈥 Koh also asserted that the Justice Department鈥檚 initial investigation into torture was actively looking into allegations of abuse by the CIA and other civilian agencies.
Drawing largely from material that has been covered in , we have come up with 10 follow-up questions for the U.S. about its compliance with domestic and international prohibitions against torture.
In , Judge Gladys Kessler disallowed evidence she concluded had been 鈥渙btained by torture,鈥 including statements by , who she found had been abused in Pakistan at the direction of the United States and who was then tortured in Morocco and the CIA's 鈥淒ark Prison鈥 in Afghanistan. This month, the government of the United Kingdom reached a settlement agreement that includes substantial financial compensation to Binyam Mohammed for its own complicity in his U.S.-orchestrated torture. Is the treatment of Mohammed the subject of any past or current U.S. investigation? Who has been prosecuted or disciplined in connection with his torture?