The U.S.report stressed that it did not reach legal conclusions as to whether the abuses cited constituted violations of international law.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

And just to simplify the discussion, put aside the question of law, let's assume that you as the jury are charged with deciding whether what they did was morally permissible or not.

为了简化讨论过程，撇开法律问题不谈，假设你们作为陪审团，只需裁定,他们的所作所为，在道德上是否是允许的。

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