enough or not is a different question but they're not what they were in two thousand and four when manfred nowak asked for permission to visit and so i'm hoping the. obama administration will have. a more constructive. response to my request do you trust the obama administration. as a special rapporteur i have jurisdiction over one hundred ninety countries i don't trust or distrust any government i just deal with them in the same way and and yes i i poured from the premise depart from the premise that all governments have to live up to their obligations under international law just one more question for you i know that in the past you have called for the united states to investigate and prosecute torture committed under the former president george w. bush and a lot of people seem to say you know it's in the past let's not reopen old wounds this will get in the way of you know national unity it will maybe make our reputation abroad much worse based on what comes out of that where how do you respond to that well the torture convention international law more generally makes it an obligation of the