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A former U.S. president is accusing the current president of sanctioning the widespread abuse of human rights by authorizing drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists...
Instead of making the world safer, Americas violation of international human rights abets our enemies and alienates our friends, Carter wrote...
In addition to the drone strikes, Carter criticized the current president for keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention center open, where prisoners have been tortured by waterboarding more than 100 times or intimidated with semiautomatic weapons, power drills or threats to sexually assault their mothers.
The former president blasted the government for allowing unprecedented violations of our rights to privacy through warrantless wiretapping and government mining of our electronic communications.
Jimmy Carter Accuses U.S. of ‘Widespread Abuse of Human Rights’ - ABC News
He also blasted Obama's extraordinary rendition program.
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