The American officials, who were part of an unusually large group sent to deliver a report on the country’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture, offered a careful and familiar set of responses to questions that the panel posed.

Despite abuses in places like the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the American officials denied that the government systematically mistreated prisoners and reiterated a commitment to a global ban on torture.
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But the UN legal experts charged with ensuring that nations keep their commitments under the Convention Against Torture appeared skeptical.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/05/news/geneva.php