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We only violate the rights of the bad people. If an occasional innocent person has their rights violated . . . well . . . we're pretty sure they were planning to do something bad in the future. But I guess we needed a little more time to cook the boo . . . I mean gather the relevant information.GENEVA - The United States will be late in filing a report on its anti-terrorist measures, including the treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a U.N. human rights body said Friday.
U.S. officials told the Human Rights Committee by letter that "they are not in a position to submit their report by the time of the committee's 84th session," committee chairwoman Christine Chanet said.
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The United States is also seven years late in filing its periodic report on the state of human rights in the country. Shearer said that 35 other countries are even later than the United States, but conceded that most of those are "poor, developing countries."
