Comments left by signatories included: It's shameful that a woman gets raped because of callousness and sheer "get rich quick" greed of a company claiming to be providing very safe service.
The president's remarks left fellow signatories to the nuclear pact frantically lobbying Washington to stick to the terms of the agreement.
Gerry Adams remains the only party leader left from those signatories in 1998.
Critics say it could mean innocent travellers having their laptops searched for pirated music, or being jailed for carrying a generic drug.That is probably exaggerated: ACTA is intentionally vague (signatories are left to draw up precise rules themselves).
"All that is left is for the signatories of the group account to come to town and get their photos taken, and after that the account will be opened," says Seith Opejo, Uweso's linkage banking officer in Katine.
Each signatory was left free to build what it felt it needed for defense.
India, Pakistan and Israel, all nuclear-weapons states, are non-signatories; North Korea left the npt without much effective sanction after gaining nuclear-weapons technology.
The Vienna Convention of 1961, to which Pakistan and the U.S. are signatories, leaves a massively vague interpretation up for grabs in its Article 37, which states that "administrative and technical staff" of a diplomatic mission also qualify for diplomatic immunity -- i.e., possibly, CIA officers.
The US is not a signatory to the ICC treaty, so it would be left to Britain, Washington's junior partner in the coalition, to defend any charges.
Indeed, one of the new letter's signatories is former Representative Billy Tauzin, who shepherded that bill through Congress then immediately left public office to become PhRMA's lavishly paid president.
