Iraq, torture and the United Nations

The whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks has released a second set of documents out of Iraq ? the ?Iraq War Logs.? While the nearly 400,000 field reports detailing events seen and heard by the U.S. military troops on the ground in Iraq offer little information about the inner-workings of American detention facilities, they show that the U.S. military was not only aware of torture carried out by the Iraqi army and police ? and perhaps even condoned and facilitated it.

United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak joins us to talk about whether the documents will change the United Nations’ position on prosecuting crimes of torture in Iraq.