Amnesty International USA as later in January 2009, when Susan J. Crawford, who was appointed by President Bush to be the Convening Authority for the Guantanamo military commissions became the first Bush administration official to concede that at least one individual was tortured at Guantanamo Bay. Affirming Amnesty International’s position that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld’s explanation for Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp’s existence was because of its optimal setting for interrogation and prosecution of extraordinarily dangerous persons for war crimes was in from Amnesty's view a thinly veiled excuse for allowing the use of torture. Amnesty International USA holds that all detainees
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox Church of the USA in October 2012, Archbishop Antony was selected Metropolitan-elect and successor to Metropolitan Constantine as Metropolitan of the Church. After formal election by the Great and Holy Synod of Constantinople, on January 26, 2013 Metropolitan Antony was formally enthroned as the Metropolitan of Hierapolis and of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. At the same Special Sobor of 2012, Bishop Daniel was elected as President of the Consistory of the Church. The act of renouncing autocephaly and entering the omophorion of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which left the UOC-USA with no direct tie to any of