“In an Executive Order [No. 13491] issued January 27, 2009, President [Barack] Obama reinstated the Geneva Conventions’ Common Article 3 and revoked all Executive Directives, Orders, and Regulations issued from 9/11 to the end of the Bush Administration which are consistent with this new Order. Detainees are to be treated in accordance with the CAT [United Nations Convention Against Torture], and all relevant laws and treaties of the U.S.”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Pages 259-260