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Human Rights Group Demands Obama Investigate Bush Over Torture

Ryan J. Reilly | July 12, 2011, 1:40PM

A leading human rights group is criticizing the Obama administration for failing to criminally investigate anyone from the Bush administration for approving the use of torture against detainees. They say that since the U.S. wouldn't act, the international community should step in.

The 107-page report from Human Rights Watch, "Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees," presents "substantial information warranting criminal investigations of Bush and senior administration officials, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and CIA Director George Tenet, for ordering practices such as 'waterboarding,' the use of secret CIA prisons, and the transfer of detainees to countries where they were tortured," according to a press release.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Bush, Obama Administration, Torture