US Criticized by UN for Human Rights Failings on NSA, Guns and Drones

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US Criticized by UN for Human Rights Failings on NSA, Guns and Drones
By Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
14 March 2014
Geneva panel share deep concerns over US record on host of different subjects, including racial inequality and Guantánamo

The US came under sharp criticism at the UN human rights committee in Geneva on Thursday for a long list of human rights abuses that included everything from detention without charge at Guantánamo, drone strikes and NSA surveillance, to the death penalty, rampant gun violence and endemic racial inequality.

At the start of a two-day grilling of the US delegation, the committee’s 18 experts made clear their deep concerns about the US record across a raft of human rights issues. Many related to faultlines as old as America itself, such as guns and race.

Other issues were relative newcomers. The experts raised questions about the National Security Agency’s surveillance of digital communications in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations. It also intervened in this week’s dispute between the CIA and US senators by calling for declassification and release of the 6,300-page report into the Bush administration’s use of torture techniques and rendition that lay behind the current CIA-Senate dispute...

...The US came under sustained criticism for its global counter-terrorism tactics, including the use of unmanned drones to kill al-Qaida suspects, and its transfer of detainees to third countries that might practice torture, such as Algeria. Committee members also highlighted the Obama administration’s failure to prosecute any of the officials responsible for permitting waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation” techniques under the previous administration.... MORE

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1. K&R

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2. Suppose this whole country

Is really the BFEE. Evil is evil. And Bush turned us into the enemy he was going after. It happens. You become what you hate.