3/7/2005

From information in an Associated Press article on March 7, 2005: “In a candid, but damning moment, Attorney General [Alberto] Gonzales admitted that diplomatic assurances against torture are unreliable. ‘We can’t fully control what a country might do. We obviously expect a country to which we have rendered a detainee to comply with their representation to us…If you’re asking me, *Does a country always comply?* I don’t have to answer that.’ ”

 – M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page 163