Democratic Party leaders in the House are convinced that something smells rotten at the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay
House Democrats seem convinced that evidence of abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Iraq and Afghanistan is being concealed and that the only way to expose it is with a commission liked the one convened to investigate intelligence failures that allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
"We in Congress have a responsibility to make this issue once again too hot for the Republicans to handle," she said. "The treatment of detainees is a taint on our country's reputation."
This while a Congressional delgation, that included Democrats, return with a slightly different report.
"Everything we heard about operations there in the past, we'd have to say, was negative. What we saw firsthand was something different," [Sen. Ben] Nelson [Nebraska Democrat] said.
And where was it he head about operations at Gitmo? Why from Sen Durbin, of course
"The United States, which each year issues a human rights report holding the world accountable for outrageous conduct, is engaged in the same outrageous conduct when it comes to these prisoners," Mr. Durbin said at the time, citing an FBI agent's e-mail detailing some of the tactics to which the agent objected.
On the human rights issue, Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat who also toured the facility notes
"I strongly prefer the improved practices and conditions at Camp Delta to the outsourcing of interrogation to countries with a far less significant commitment to human rights,"
Sen Wyden must not be looking for the MoveOn.org vote. Either that or he does not mind being a reasonable, sane, individual no matter what it costs him politically.
In any case, it is pretty clear that the US is not in fact running a Gulag in Cuba. Of course there are Gulags in Cuba, but the Left ignores those and instead manufactures Gulags that aren't there. It seems to me that it is much more work to invent stuff than it is to just point out stuff that really exists.
But when you have the New York Times on your side to amplify the false information while filtering out the truth, it's much easier than would would think.
[U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Midland] said the criticism was "absolutely" motivated by partisan opportunism because the Camp Delta he saw bore no resemblance to the one Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin compared to "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime of Pol Pot or others who had no concern for human beings" June 15
Ya think?