In the year since President Obama pointed to his country being at a “crossroads”, the USA has continued to travel in the same direction in relation to Guantánamo, military commissions, drone attacks, impunity and the lack of truth and remedy. The USA has, of course, been on the wrong side of its international human rights obligations in relation to its counter-terrorism policies for a lot longer than the past year. It will remain so until respect for such international human rights principles, rather than its “global war” theory, underpins its actions.
