U.S. failed to reject torture in 'war on terror'

Today in the The Daily Star:

The United States has manifestly failed to uphold obligations to reject torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading behavior in the 'war on terror' launched after Sept. 11, 2001, Amnesty International said today.
The human rights group condemned the U.S. administration's response to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington as one which had resulted in its own 'iconography of torture, cruelty and degradation.'"
Photographs that surfaced in April showed U.S. soldiers posing, smiling and giving the thumbs-up sign as naked, male Iraqi prisoners were stacked in a pyramid or positioned to simulate sex acts with one another.
Amnesty said the U.S. and the rest of the world would be "haunted by these and other images for years to come" and described them as "icons of a government's failure to put human rights at its heart."(...)
Sunday's Washington Post said U.S. intelligence officials were transferring detainees out of Iraq for interrogation. In those cases, the Central Intelligence Agency had invoked a confidential Justice Department memo to justify its actions, the Post said