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Home Front: Politix
Specter to Hold Hearings on 'Gulag'
2005-06-05
Prompted by Amnesty International's complaint that the U.S. terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is a "gulag," Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter plans to hold hearings this month to clarify the rights of terrorist suspects. Specter's investigation will focus on the detention of enemy combatants at both Guantanamo and inside the United States, according to the Associated Press. One of the key questions on the Pennsylvania Republican's agenda: whether trying accused terrorists before military tribunals provides them adequate due process.
Are they being provided with fluffy pillows?
Critics of U.S. policy have also complained that techniques such as waterboarding, which was used at Guantanamo against Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant Khalid Sheik Mohammed, constitutes torture.
Bedtime mint?
Mohammed was al Qaeda's operations chief for the 9/11 attacks.
Which means they could have slowly ground him into hamburger and I wouldn't have cared a bit...
Because of the alleged mistreatment of detainees like Mohammed, Amnesty International's 2005 human rights report labels Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld "architects of torture."
It is kind of a classic of hyperbole, isn't it?
Specter has begun drafting a bill to establish procedures for accused terrorists, which could include the creation of a process where detainees could contest their incarcerations, the AP said. Amnesty International applauded the Pennsylvania Republican for his decision to hold gulag hearings. "Any kind of sunshine would be a good antiseptic for this situation," the group's advocacy director, Jumana Musa, told the AP.
Spectar once again proves his RINO credentials.
Posted by:Captain America

#8  When are we as a nation going to just come out and tell the world that we don't give a flying rat's @ss what they all want?
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2005-06-06 00:00  

#7  There's a chance that Arlen might come thru here. He's a dead cold prosector when he wan't to be.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-06-05 20:00  

#6  Damn Specter. If Frist was actually a LEADER, I mean one with a full set of cajones, this kind of crap along with the "compromise of the 14" wouldn't happen. Awful frustrating when the American people hand them power and they are too wimpy to use it.
Posted by: Unose Whavitle7547   2005-06-05 19:43  

#5  Mrs. Davis, the way that Specter is framing the matter "...creation of a process where detainees could contest their incarcerations..." is a rather ominous indication of where he wants this to go.

AI applauding is not a good thing.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-06-05 17:41  

#4  Can't Frist kill this dog? Or does he and Spectre want us to lose this war?

I hoope Amnesty got off from the tonguing it got from Spectre.
Posted by: badanov   2005-06-05 13:58  

#3  Who else is on the committee? Perhaps one of them is loking for the oportunity to slap down AI and gain exposure on the national stage.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-06-05 13:52  

#2  Another Bill Frist masterpiece.
Posted by: someone   2005-06-05 13:50  

#1  If he wants, he could run this strongly: establish these mooks aren't entitled to anything other than a clean execution, discredit AI and their anti-american pals in the MSM, and put the lawyer rush to Guantanamo in perspective as remoras on the shark trying to kill Americans....
but I won't hold my breath....
Posted by: Frank G   2005-06-05 13:35  

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