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Geneva: UN human rights council grills US over NSA spies and Gitmo

by Our Foreign Desk

THE United States was forced to defend its human rights record yesterday at the United Nations in Geneva.

Justice Department official James Cadogan faced a grilling by delegates at a meeting of the UN human rights council (UNHRC) over a variety of abuses.

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