**Written by Doug Powers

If you hear a collective sigh of relief coming from the White House, it’s because they appear to have dodged the last thing they would have needed right now, which is any kind of nod of approval from Jimmy Carter.

From ABC News:

A former U.S. president is accusing the current president of sanctioning the “widespread abuse of human rights” by authorizing drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists.

Jimmy Carter, America’s 39th president, denounced the Obama administration for “clearly violating” 10 of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writing in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that the “United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.”

“Instead of making the world safer, America’s violation of international human rights abets our enemies and alienates our friends,” Carter wrote.
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In addition to the drone strikes, Carter criticized the current president for keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention center open, where prisoners “have been tortured by waterboarding more than 100 times or intimidated with semiautomatic weapons, power drills or threats to sexually assault their mothers.”

The former president blasted the government for allowing “unprecedented violations of our rights to privacy through warrantless wiretapping and government mining of our electronic communications.”

Just to be safe, both of their Nobel Peace Prizes should be confiscated until we sort all this out. Until then, we’ll let Al Gore hold them for safe keeping.

**Written by Doug Powers

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