Former President Jimmy Carter Says He Knows U.S. Tortures Prisoners
"I don't think it, I know it," Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer when asked pointedly if he believed that the Bush administration used torture.
"Our country for the first time in my life has abandoned the basic principle of human rights... We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused," he said.
Carter however rebuked the administration's justification of its practices saying that President Bush's statement was not "accurate' when set against international norms of torture and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"But you can make your own definition of human rights and say we don't violate them, and you can make your own definition of torture and say we don't violate them," Carter said.
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