Yet another shameful peformance for the U.S. on the international stage

i am living in a country where illegal detentions and disappearances devastated the social fabric for nearly ten years and the consequences are still playing out... that the u.s. could claim that the final document "did not meet our expectations" as a reason for not signing is a pathetic statement and a telling sign of what the u.s. has become - a pariah in the arena of human rights...

Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them.

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The convention defines forced disappearances as the arrest, detention, kidnapping or "any other form of deprivation of freedom" by state agents or affiliates, followed by denials or cover-ups about the detention and location of the person gone missing.

and, finally, the lame-ass u.s. spokesman...

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack declined comment except to say that the United States helped draft the treaty, but that the final text "did not meet our expectations."

so very sad...

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