The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, admitted in a TV interview that the United States has violated the Geneva Conventions. Petraeus made the comment while expressing support for President Obama’s decision to ban certain extreme interrogation techniques, but he did not specifically say which parts of the Geneva Conventions had been violated.

General David Petraeus: “When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Convention, we rightly have been criticized. And so, as we move forward, I think it’s important to again live our values, to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those.”