WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure mounted Friday on the Defense Department after multiple U.S. senators called for investigations into reports that U.S. military interrogators worked with forces from the United Arab Emirates who are accused of torturing detainees in Yemen. "Even the suggestion that the United States tolerates torture by our foreign partners compromises our national security mission by undermining the moral principle that distinguishes us from our enemies— our belief that all people possess basic human rights," the senators wrote Mattis . Democratic Sen.
Senators Seek Pentagon Investigation Of Torture Reports
By DESMOND BUTLER and MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Sat, 06/24/2017 - 12:50am
Topics: washington ap pressure defense department united arab emirates mattis democratic sen patrick leahy vice chairman senate appropriations committee reports defense leahy ap american emirates eritrea ap department u.s at yemen united states uae torture detainees military rights forces human officials wrote called run government families prisoners
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