Assertion: torture's effect | /r/HasProperty | to transform the united states
Facets:
value: among them
type: OTHER
value: officially
type: MANNER
value: from a nation
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The effect of those decisions — among them, the decision to imprison indefinitely those seized in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the war on terror, the decision to designate those prisoners as "unlawful combatants" and to withhold from them the protections of the Geneva Convention, and finally the decision to employ "high pressure methods" to extract "actionable intelligence" from them — was officially to transform the United States from a nation that did not torture to one that did.