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President Biden released a statement on International Day in Support of Victims of Torture Torture is prohibited everywhere and at all times. It is illegal, immoral, and a stain on our collective conscience.
Torture remains a moral stain on the world’s collective conscience. That is why today, 35 years after the United Nations Convention Against Torture and
Terror, we continue to adopt those universal principles. >> there are two buckets here. one is guantanamo, which is representative of the way whether we do it guantanamo or the way we held prisoners in the middle east, which doesn't seem to live up to any meaningful standard of how you imprison people. and there's the second issue, which is enhanced interrogation techniques or what we now know to be torture and its effectiveness. both of these have undermined these universal principles that you say that we subscribe to. >> that's correct. in the case of the torture program, this is something t...
Curtis said he thinks "senior people fully understand that acts like torture do more long-term damage than good, if they do any good."
It's not about reaching across the aisle. it's not even about some kind of persuasive argument that people like jennifer can make because what you're running up against is this deep existential rage and fear that is being stoked on a daily, monthly, hourly basis by one of our two political parties in this country. >> yeah, zerlina, what alex has just framed for me has made me now see this as she was speaking as the kind of local version of the trump election loss because the person who's running this torture program against jennifer is the person she beat in the election, the republican she be...