| 1 | And torture is illegal under U.S. law. | |
| 2 | Others link the ban to reports of torture in official detention. | |
| 3 | They had always denied the claim, saying their confessions were extracted under torture. | |
| 4 | The alleged abuses include holding people incommunicado and extracting confessions through torture, Nowak said. | |
| 5 | So Obama's famous position of not looking backward seems to apply only to crimes like torture or illegal warrantless surveillance. |