Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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22. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding the findings of a distinguished legal research and advocacy panel from the Constitution Project that the United States had practiced had indisputable torture on prisoners. [23100/13]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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The report to which the Deputy refers is a detailed document of more than 600 pages, produced by an organisation that aims to influence policy in the United States.

The Deputy will be aware that in 2006 the US military, in its Field Manual, prohibited the use of a number of interrogation techniques, including waterboarding and sexual humiliation. In early 2009, by an Executive Order, President Obama required all US Government agencies to implement this Field Manual.