US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
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Re: US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
#2Because the US government is no longer even pretending to care about human rights.
Re: US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
#3Because the US government is no longer even pretending to care about human rights.
And it was always purely a pretense.
One must laud the transparency this administration has introduced.
Re: US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
#4Not that I agree with this decision, but is there any evidence that these reports yielded any consequences? Or rather, was it one of those, "After conducting an internal investigation, we have determined we did nothing wrong" kind of things?
Re: US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
#5> Tim Rieser, former senior aide to Senator Leahy who wrote the 2011 amendment mandating information gathering, told the BBC the gateway's removal meant the State Department was "clearly ignoring the law".
We're in a really bad place... with a servile congress, it turns out there aren't really any laws constraining the executive branch. When everything relies on "independent IGs" for law enforcement inside executive branch departments, and the President can fire them all without consequence or oversight, then it turns out there is no law.
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Re: US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
#7> Tim Rieser, former senior aide to Senator Leahy who wrote the 2011 amendment mandating information gathering, told the BBC the gateway's removal meant the State Department was "clearly ignoring the law". We're in a really bad place... with a servile congress, it turns out there aren't really any laws constraining the executive branch. When everything relies on "independent IGs" for law enforcement inside executive…
It defeats the purpose of a veto if the executive branch can ignore the law.
Re: US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
#8Not that I agree with this decision, but is there any evidence that these reports yielded any consequences? Or rather, was it one of those, "After conducting an internal investigation, we have determined we did nothing wrong" kind of things?
Yes, I would think the 'smart evil' thing to do would be keeping it running and just ignoring what you don't like but now people will just send the stuff to WikiLeaks.
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Re: US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
#10Because the US government is no longer even pretending to care about human rights.
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