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echo: pol_inc
to: EARL CROASMUN
from: JOHNJWILSON
date: 2009-06-01 23:38:12
subject: Re-reexamining Tortur

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-> 
-> By itself that is meaningless, since the Convention has no enforcement
-> in it.  Each country is supposed to pass laws that incorporate the
-> convention into that country's domestic law.  The US has done that, and
-> it is now a part of the US Code.  The nutcases who are hoping that some
-> foreign country will prosecute Cheney seem unaware of that fact.
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My reading of Art. 6 seems to differ. Treaties signed ARE law. Am I
mistaken?
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