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June 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“But instead of making the world safer, America’s violation of
international human rights abets our enemies and alienates our friends.”
Among the abuses Mr Carter cited were drone attacks that kill civilians,
targeted assassinations of American citizens, powers to indefinitely detain
terror suspects, the use of torture to obtain confessions and privacy
violations through warrantless wiretapping and electronic data mining.
“This development began after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
and has been sanctioned and escalated by bipartisan executive and
legislative actions, without dissent from the general public.
“As a result, our country can no longer speak with moral authority on
these critical issues,” he said.
“While the country has made mistakes in the past, the widespread abuse of
human rights over the last decade has been a dramatic change from the past,”
he said.
Mr Carter was particularly scathing about the campaign of drone attacks on
suspected al-Qaeda operatives, begun under the administration of George W.
Bush and intensified since President Barack Obama took office.
“Despite an arbitrary rule that any man killed by drones is declared an
enemy terrorist, the death of nearby innocent women and children is accepted
as inevitable,” he wrote.
“After more than 30 air strikes on civilian homes this year in
Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai has demanded that such attacks end, but
the practice continues in areas of Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen that are not
in any war zone.
“We don’t know how many hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed
in these attacks, each one approved by the highest authorities in
Washington. This would have been unthinkable in previous times.”
Citing top military and intelligence officials, Carter said the escalation of
drone attacks has “turned aggrieved families toward terrorist
organisations, aroused civilian populations against us and permitted
repressive governments to cite such actions to justify their own despotic
behaviour.”
Source: AFP
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