U.N. Calls on Obama to Publish Findings on Bush-Era Torture

“A United Nations human rights official wants the Obama administration to release a government report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret rendition program conducted during the George W. Bush era.

Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, noted that under President Barack Obama, the government has withheld important information on what he said were illegal acts committed by CIA agents.

“Many of the facts remain classified, and no public official has so far been brought to justice in the United States,” Emmerson said in a report to the UN Human Rights Council. Speaking to that panel, he called the CIA torture program an “international conspiracy of crime.” …”

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