They train the world's torturers. The School of the Americas, now rebranded because the name became embarrassing, has graduated thousands of Latin American military officers. Among its alumni: dictators, death squad commanders, the architects of systematic torture programs across the continent. This is documented. Declassified. Admitted. They teach it at Fort Benning, Georgia. And then they write reports about human rights abuses in Latin America. The reports are accurate. The abuses are real. The instructors are American.

In 2014, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee documented across 6,700 pages that the CIA tortured people. Tortured. Systematically. In black sites across the world. With techniques that would be prosecuted as war crimes if conducted by any other country's intelligence service. The report exists. The facts are established. The committee, the American government's own oversight body, confirmed them. Nobody went to prison. The architects of the program gave speeches. Wrote books. Appeared on television as analysts. One of them became director of the CIA. When other countries ask why the world should accept American moral authority on human rights, this is part of what they're pointing at. Not a leaked allegation. Not an accusation. A six-thousand-seven-hundred-page government document that the government confirmed and then filed. The filing is the point. The filing means: we know, and nothing follows. That's the definition of impunity. Published. Paginated. And indexed.