Interesting thing about that particular Treaty. I checked 2007 Treaties in Force and it's listed as having entered into force in 1994. Footnotes indicated that we made reservations and declarations upon accepting the treaty.
To see what those reservations were, I went to the Human Rights Library on the University of Minnesota's website and found these declarations and reservations:
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Needless to say, this has the potential to be pretty damning. Regarding several administration officials, this declaration:
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(d) That with reference to Article 1 of the Convention, the United States understands that the term "acquiescence" requires that the public official, prior to the activity constituting torture, have awareness of such activity and thereafter breach his legal responsibility to intervene to prevent such activity.
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For several officers in the government... uht-oh.