Obama needs to rethink this

From the former chief prosecutor at Gitmo. I wonder if he has to resort to finding some inches in a UK paper because U.S. papers still don't give a damn. Pithy statements like this tend not to go over well in the Homeland:

The United States cannot stand up for justice and the rule of law when it sits idly on its own record of torture. It diminishes the weight of its moral authority to influence others around the world when it treats its binding legal obligations as options it can choose to exercise or ignore. If President Obama is sincere about standing up for fundamental values, then America's actions must live up to its rhetoric.

The specific examples of torture referenced by Davis of course are the tip of the iceberg and don't even include our outsourcing of torture under the rendition programme.