War Criminal #18 first to sign in.
Graduate of the USN Law of War course.
It’s not against the law because “torture” was defined as.......”physical bodily harm or death”. That was tied to US code. Therefore, it didn’t meet the threshold.
Furthermore, the articles governing the Treatment of POWs in the Third Convention of the Geneva Conventions was written in a time to deal with the atrocities following WWII (it was written in 1949).
Absent from the discussion is the FACT that terrorists, or any other entity not following the Law of War, is not given POW protection afforded by the Geneva Conventions.
But that (withdrawing of GC protections) has to be determined by a competent military tribunal....and that has not been the case: and this is where the Pentagon has dropped the ball.
Sir, War Criminal #41, sir.