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President Obama Signs Executive Order Ending Torture On January 22, 2009 President Obama signed an Executive Order ending U.S. use of harsh interrogation techniques. The Order embraces the Declaration of Principles for a Presidential Executive Order on Prisoner Treatment, Torture and Cruelty proposed by the Campaign to Ban Torture and CVT’s mission to end the use of torture worldwide. To learn more about the declaration and to support CVT in ending torture, visit www.cvt.org Endorsers of the Declaration of Principles Former Department of State Secretary Madeleine K. Albright Ambassador Richard L. Armitage Secretary Warren Christopher Lorne Craner Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith Ambassador Marc Grossman Ambassador Richard Holbrooke Ambassador James Jones Harold H. Koh Dr. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering Ambassador Felix Rohatyn Secretary George P. Shultz Ambassador Frank Wisner John C. Whitehead Former Department of Defense Secretary Harold Brown Dr. Ashton B. 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