He began by thanking the commission for hosting a forum to examine “human rights atrocities” in the United States. The IACHR, an autonomous body of the Organization of American States, monitors human rights conditions in the hemisphere and hears complaints from civil society about alleged violations. Andrea Pochak, one of the IACHR commissioners, said priests, journalists, human rights lawyers, and immigrants are not terrorists. Cavallaro, the former president of IACHR, urged the commission to visit the United States to observe the human rights situation in the country. After the hearing, Romanucci told Mother Jones the government’s evasiveness at the hearing mirrored its handling of Good’s killing.