The occasion is the latest convening of the Human Rights Committee on the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). A U.S. delegation will face independent United Nations experts on the Committee, tasked with assessing compliance with the ICCPR, who will once again question U.S. treaty violations at Guantánamo Bay. The U.S. presentation provides an opportunity for President Biden to take a significant step forward and recognize the application of international law to the medical needs of an aging detainee population that is fast deteriorating from the effects of torture and harsh conditions.

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      9 months ago

      Obama had to constantly walk on glass. Every decision, including the color of his suit, was scrutinized.

      We are seeing the non-racist version play out with Biden as the GOP tried to work in a impeachment over… Fucking nothing?

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        Not nothing it’s over a vague allusion in an email which I think we can all agree is an absolute smoking gun. After all it says “the big guy” which HAS to be POTUS Biden and couldn’t be any of the list of other guys Hunter was doing business with because as we all know no one has ever used “the big guy” to refer to anyone else /s

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      Why wouldn’t they? Are you going to let our rogue’s gallery of terrorists with an African Muslim whose wife is secretly a man and who wears brown suits while ripping our country apart because he wouldn’t say racist things about people who were being beaten and murdered due to systemic racism? What are you, crazy???

      But Biden can’t due it either because communism or something. Oh yeah! And he’s old. You can’t trust old people. You should call the cops on your grandparents because they’re old.