The Justice Department and the UN Convention Against Torture

According to the Justice Department, the Geneva Conventions do not clearly state the definition of 'torture' and other words such as 'severe'. The Justice Department wants to redefine these terms so that it cannot be interpreted differently. What John Yoo and the Justice Department came up with was that physical pain amounted to "organ failure, impairment of bodily functions, and death". One critic claims that this analysis of torture is to narrow and should be more broad. Another critic shows his disgust with the definition by saying that this allows for many of the things Saddam Hussein does and the document should be burned but it is instead now US policy.