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The Report of The Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment. Constitution Project, 2013, pp. 602.

01 August 2013

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The US-based Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment is made up of former high-ranking officials with careers in the judiciary, Congress, the diplomatic service, law enforcement, the military and other parts of the executive branch, as well as experts in law, medicine and ethics. The group includes Republicans and Democrats - including some pretty extreme Republicans - as well as the former Director of the FBI under presidents Reagan and Bush. This makes it all the more surprising that the Task Force reached the unanimous and unreserved conclusion “that the United States engaged in the practice of torture.” Among the cases documented in the report are examples of prisoners who were tortured and for which “no CIA personnel have been convicted or even charged” – these “include cases where interrogators exceeded what was authorised by the Office of Legal Counsel, and cases where detainees were tortured to death.” The report notes that although the worst excesses occurred under George W. Bush, the practice of extraordinary rendition began under Clinton (who handed dissidents to Moammar Gadhafi as a “favour”) and continues to this day under Obama, who differs only from his predecessors in sending victims to foreign countries for “processing.”

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