Don,
Nobody has accused the American people of these crimes - the finger is pointed at your various governmets who have overseen these atrocities.
I re-read the article, which says torture shouldn't happen, indicating that it still does. "We're doing everything we can to strengthen the consensus against torture."   
We don't know if the special rendition flights still happen, but we do know they were happening a couple of years ago.
Obama promised to close Guantanamo, yet it remains, with 80 odd prisoners still being held there, uncharged and untried, in intolerable conditions.
America has a fairly recent history to live down, and until it comes clean and says that these atrocities no longer happen (unlike you, I doubt if anybody's head will roll for them), any claim for the fight against terrorism will continue to ring very hollow.
Jim Carroll