Has the U.S. Been Engaged in Systemic Torture?

[Soulforged]

Here is my opinion.

NO.

I think the US needs to better control the press, becuase the media eventually snowballs things to hell.

I don't believe its systematic, more like sporadic with some of the ones torturing prisoners going a bit over the top.

Not exactly. There's a SYSTEM of regulations and narrow interpretations of signed treaties that ALLOW torture. Of course is of the interpretation of some that this is not torture, so it will be a normal legal system, instead of one wich allows torture. Another thing, if knowing that there's a clear treaty that you signed stating what is or what is not torture and then you interprete this text or create new law in the contrary sense, then your creating an space for the systematic use of torture.

[Tribesman]

I would need dozens of well documented cases to consider it a problem.
What is the current tally of confirmed investigated well documented cases according to the US military ?
Is it over 800 yet ?
I havn't looked recently , but it was approaching 700 last time I did and had been climbing steadily the more they investigated it .
So Tex , as that isn't just a media figure , do you consider it a problem yet ?