The Sun News | 01/26/2005 | Treaty doesn't bar 'cruel' tactics, Gonzales says

The Sun News | 01/26/2005 | Treaty doesn't bar 'cruel' tactics, Gonzales says:

"Gonzales told senators that laws and treaties prohibit torture by any U.S. agent without exception.

But he said the Convention Against Torture treaty, as ratified by the Senate, doesn't prohibit the use of 'cruel, inhuman or degrading' tactics on non-U.S. citizens who are captured abroad.

Gonzales, White House counsel and a close Bush adviser, described recent reports of prisoner abuse as 'shocking and deeply troubling.'"...