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INTRODUCTION

The United States tortured detainees during the so-called

War on Terror.2 While this has been asserted on many occa-

sions, it is difficult to overlook the number of admissions that

have now been made by U.S. government officials.

On August 1, 2014, President Obama was discussing the

anticipated release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelli-

gence's ("SSCI") long-awaited report on the Central Intelli

gence Agency's ("CIA") Detention and Interrogation Pro-

gram.3 In his candid remarks, President Obama acknowledged

that detainees were tortured by the United States during the

War on Terror.4

[E]ven before I came into office I was very clear that

in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 we did some

things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that

were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things

that were contrary to our values. . . . [W] e did some

things that were wrong. And that's what that report

reflects. And that's the reason why, after I took office,

one of the first things I did was to ban some of the

extraordinary interrogation techniques that are the

subject of that report.

And my hope is, is that this report reminds us once

again that the character of our country has to be

measured in part not by what we do when things are

easy, but what we do when things are hard. And when

we engaged in some of these enhanced interrogation tech-

niques, techniques that I believe and I think any fair-

minded person would believe were torture, we crossed a line.

And that needs to be - that needs to be understood

and accepted. And we have to, as a country, take re-

sponsibility for that so that, hopefully, we don't do it

again in the future.