What US law does waterboading break?

wizjp

Geneva convention does not apply to enemy combatants captured in civilian clothing.

Cruel and unusual punishment does not apply to anyone but an American citizen; again, not an enemy combatant.

Dave87gn

obviously it is against the geneva convention, and obviously it violated the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the constitution which only protects citizens...so it is an international crime

John Holmes

it not be right

Smell This

None ! (It's an effective way of extracting information from dangerous slime-balls).... but the "mama's boy, crying towel crowd are afraid it might be to harsh !

jethom33545

We signed the Geneva Convention. Its also unconstitutional.

magerious

The constitution of the United States of America states that it is unlawful for a government to enact cruel and unusual punishment on individuals whether they be citizens or enemies.

Also the Geneva Convention, makes it unlawful to torture or cruelly treat prisoners.

jxt299

The Constitution says no "cruel or unusual punishments". Mr. Bush's Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, called the Constitution "quaint". How many millions of Americans have died to protect that "quaint" document--it is the heart and soul of our Republic.

Ryan

The United States is part of the Geneva convention and helped write it.

Pfo

None.

The constitution only applies to US citizens.

The Geneva Conventions only apply to combatants that follow its conventions.

Yuuuuuuurraaay!

The Geneva convention applies directly to the US because the Constitution gives treaties the full force and effect of US law as if it were passed by Congress.

Libertarian and proud of it

Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, aka the 8th amendment.

blueberry pie in your eye

another problem with any form of torcher is it dont work period. the people getting it will say whatever just to get out of it. it's a bad tactic liked and used by small minded ignorant people. much like the right in this country

sillywhisper

The USA signed the Geneva conventions. Our military code says we treat our prisoners humanly.

In civil law, inmates cannot be subjected to cruel or unusual punishment.

And if that isn't enough, torture is assault and battery, even attempted murder.

Romare

The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1984 and entered into force on June 26, 1987. The United States ratified the Convention against Torture in October 1994. The Convention entered into force for the United States on November 20, 1994.

The Nuremberg Convention and the The Geneva Conventions, which consist of four treaties formulated in Geneva, Switzerland, that set the standards for international law for humanitarian concerns. These four treaties are the basis for humanitarian law across the world. They chiefly concern the treatment of non-combatants and prisoners of war. They do not affect the use of weapons in war, which are covered by the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the Geneva Protocol on the use of gas and biological weapons of 1925.

The idea that a warrior owes a duty not just to his nation, or his army, but also to his common humanity is a concept as old as civilization itself is. Over the millennia, civilization has remembered with respect those warriors who were courageous in battle and merciful to those they defeated, regardless of whose banner under which they fought, while history regards with infamy those warriors, regardless of their military success, who willingly discarded the very honor and respect that they may have earned in battle through their atrocities committed upon civilians or cruelties visited upon vanquished foes. No warrior has been regarded as a man of courage for slaughtering of the weak or innocent, for his pillages or sacks, or for brutalities and barbarities he visited upon his foes; therein lies no honor or glory, only senseless cruelty. This indicates that just as the law against murder in the common-law nations is established not by statute, but by history, custom, the human condition, and by being immanent in Nature, so too is the law of war, and so too has it always been, whether its violation is explicitly prohibited by treaty or not.

mer_359

no..and even if it was against a US law, it wouldn't apply to captives we use such technique on, as they are NOT US citizens.

koe

The US is a signatory to the Geneva Convention. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, of the US constitution includes the Treaty Clause which allows the US president to enter into treaties and agreements with a "supermajority" consent of the US senate. International treaties thus become part of the body of law in the US.

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