When the US does what it wants, disregarding any semblance of international law, diplomacy, or international legal procedures, other countries look to the US's behaviour which sets a global scene as a precedent for their own behavior.
So, when the US holds international prisoners from their own country on "charges" that no one can know, contest, or have legal counsel, other countries know that they can do the same.
For example here's a case in Italy where
CIA agents face abduction trial where,
A Milan judge has ordered 26 US citizens, most of them believed to be CIA agents to stand trial on charges of the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam... It is expected to be the first criminal trial over "renditions", one of the most controversial aspects of the Bush administration's "war on terror" The trial will be the biggest ever of US intelligence agents in an allied country, although they will almost certainly be tried in absentia.Not good.
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