Even if the US is not torturing people in their own prisons (in eastern Europe and afghanistan) their practice of rendition also sends some people to places such as Egypt where they are totured.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111102065.html
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Italian prosecutors on Friday formally requested the extradition of 22 U.S. citizens believed to be CIA operatives on charges that they seized an Egyptian Islamic cleric off a Milan street in early 2003 and flew him to Cairo, where he later said he was tortured.
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Not only is this morally and legally dubious it also hurts the reputation of the USA abroad (both in the public and government).