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Torture is "Un-American" Says Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Lt. Col. Stuart Couch
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February 22, 2013
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To watch the full interview with Lt. Col. Stuart Couch on Democracy Now!, visit Former military prosecutor Lt. Col. Stuart Couch condemns the U.S. policy of allowing detainees to be tortured, a practice he witnessed firsthand at the Guantánamo Bay military prison.
LT. COL. STUART COUCH: Well, as far as the detainees that are still being held, the Supreme Court has reaffirmed the customary international law position that they can be held until the end of hostilities. And the Supreme Court has uniformly held that in the cases involving Guantánamo that they have decided in recent years. So, that said, they can be held to the end of hostilities.
As to the issue of torture, what I would say is a policy that permits that, a policy that allows torture to occur, for lack of a better term, is un-American. And my hope would be that, with the issues raised about torture in the past few years, that there will be this robust discussion within this country, both on a political level and on a social level. And like we like to say here in the South, they can bring some Clorox and sunlight to this issue so that it's not repeated in the future.
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