This morning, [Glenn Greenwald] conducted a 20-minute interview with Nowak -- which can be heard by clicking PLAY on the recorder below -- regarding the specific legal obligations of the U.S. to provide accountability for crimes of torture; how Obama's invocation of the "state secrets privilege" to block torture victims from having a day in court independently violates the Convention; and the detrimental impact that will result for the U.N.'s ability to hold torturers around the world accountable (which is Nowak's prime mandate) if the U.S. announces to the world that its own political leaders who systematically ordered torture will be shielded from all accountability.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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