Thanks for the confirmation

Red Cross Described 'Torture' at CIA Jails
Secret Report Implies That U.S. Violated International Law

The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document.

The report, an account alleging physical and psychological brutality inside CIA "black site" prisons, also states that some U.S. practices amounted to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." Such maltreatment of detainees is expressly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.

The findings were based on an investigation by ICRC officials, who were granted exclusive access to the CIA's "high-value" detainees after they were transferred in 2006 to the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Hey WaPo headline writers, you might want to actually read that report you reported on. The report doesn't "imply" the US violated international torture law, it flat out says it. But we already knew this.

I guess we just put that in the "No Shit, Sherlock" file for a while until we're ready to move it over to the "...and Nothing of Consequence Ever Happened To Anyone Who Ordered It or Conducted It" file in a few decades. Then we get to hear the government belt out "Rah Rah Rah, America", "This Will Never Happen Again", close with "Nation of Laws", and come out for an encore of "Things We Learned", "It Was the Guy Before Me Who Did That" and "Nation of Laws (reprise)". Then our elected betters awkwardly yawn and talk about hittin' the dusty trail and we go home happy. Sure we've seen the show a hundred times, but it's a good show and we never get tired of it. It's like a Vegas show, except more morally corrupting and not as much topless dancing, French-Canadian acrobats, or magic. Good times.