U.S. Moral Authority in ”Free Fall”, Senators Warn

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<snip> ”This has become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world,” said Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has proposed that an independent 9/11-type commission investigate Guantánamo Bay and make recommendations.

Former president Jimmy Carter has also added his voice to those urging the U.S. to close the camp. ”The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation... because of reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo,” Carter said.

Last week, at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, some Republicans agreed that Congress has been too passive in allowing detainees to be held for years without trials or consultations with lawyers. <snip>

The U.S. Constitution ”explicitly confers upon Congress” the power to define appropriate treatments for captured foreign suspects, said Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania. <snip>

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=29147

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

1. That title cracked me up before I even hit the link.

[IndyOp]

2. Did you create the graphic above? Wow!

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

5. No, alas

but I like it.

[indepat]

3. US moral authority took a hike the day the Congress began rubber-stamping

in virtual lockstep fashion any and everything served up to it.

[rebel holler]

4. Thumbing their noses

George and Don and Dick are just thumbing their noses at the whole world by choosing now to announce the Halliburton contract to build a detention center at Gitmo.
These pigs are shameless.