Lieberman: No Facility More Humane Than Gitmo

[Hissyspit]

Source: ABC News

Lieberman: No facility more humane than Gitmo
By David Edwards and Gavin Dahl
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 -- 1:14 pm

Sen. Joe Lieberman believes that Guantanamo Bay's bad reputation isn't deserved. "You could not find a better, more humane facility for a detention center in the world," Lieberman told ABC's Terry Moran Sunday.

Though his claims are not supported by numerous reports from Cuba, they were not challenged on ABC. In March an ex-detainee reportedly said the prison was in fact worse since Obama was elected, saying guards wanted to "take their last revenge."

In July, The Raw Story reported the first full-time female FBI agent stationed at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba said she witnessed a drunken “spring break” atmosphere during her tenure — and has photographs to prove it.

Just before Christmas, a Somali just home from eight years at Guantanamo told Agence France-Presse the prison was "hell on Earth", and alleged torture there had scarred some of his fellow inmates.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/2009//01/lieberman-no-facility-more-humane-than-gitmo

[sakabatou]

1. Where's my clue-by-four when I need it?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. OK...let's send him so he can verify that claim!

Yeah......riiiiiiiiight.

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[Zoeisright]

9. +1

That was my first thought too.

[Dappleganger]

11. Definitely!

[bigwillq]

24. ....

:thumbsup:

[UpInArms]

3. A(lways)B(roadcasting)C(rap) allows LIEberman to spew his hatred

for humanity.

:puke:

[Nikki Stone1]

29. Maybe LIEberman was thinking of the Disney Gitmo with the singing and dancing animals

Or maybe ABC is just Mickey Mouse news. :)

[YOY]

4. Funny. I don't remember electing him to shit.

n.t.

[Solly Mack]

5. That fucker fails at being a decent human

[liberalmuse]

6. If there was a god...

Lieberman would be a little green globule by now.

[Moochy]

7. The only upside of Bush v Gore...

was preventing Lieberman from getting near the Executive Branch of the US Govt.

[dhpgetsit]

8. People are flocking to Gitmo to enjoy the warm hospitality.

Hey, they get universal health care too!

[Jamastiene]

10. He gripes my ass on so many levels.

I cannot believe the nerve of that guy.

[xxqqqzme]

12. There's never a fresh roll of duct tape when its needed! nt

[Vidar]

13. What an ass!

[JelloSka]

14. Lieberman must be living in Saturn

Abuses have been proved to happen in Guantanamo.

[struggle4progress]

15. Law School Study Finds Evidence Of Cover-Up After Three Alleged Suicides At Guantanamo In 2006

By Scott Horton
Special to the Huffington Post

On the night of June 9-10 in 2006, three prisoners held at the Guantánamo prison's Camp Delta died under mysterious circumstances. Military authorities responded by quickly ordering media representatives off the island and blocking lawyers from meeting with their clients. The first official military statements declared the deaths not just suicides -- but actually went so far as to describe them as acts of "asymmetrical warfare" against the United States ...

When the NCIS report was finally released, it was redacted so heavily as to make it almost incomprehensible. More than a third of the pages were fully redacted, and very few pages were released without some redaction. The NCIS report itself is highly disorganized, without an index or even a chronological progression in its recounting of events. All this appears intended to make review and criticism of the report much more difficult. While the redaction of names of service personnel is appropriate, it is difficult to understand why many other redactions were undertaken.

Human Rights Watch is calling for the release of the unredacted NCIS report. HRW's Joanne Mariner stated, in response to a request for comment, that "the heavy-handed nature of the redactions to the publicly-released reports of the investigations makes it impossible to get a clear picture of the events of that night. We think that the heavy redactions currently found in the documents -- by which names, dates, and other key facts are completely obscured on many pages -- raise concerns about whether the military is trying to hide embarrassing facts."

The Seton Hall study also points to a large number of violations of Guantánamo's standard operating procedures that appear in the investigation, many of which are linked directly to the deaths. Although the NCIS investigation flags many of these violations, no disciplinary action of any sort was taken. The Seton Hall study sees evidence of a "camp in disarray." Professor Denbeaux notes "guards not on duty, detainees hanging dead in their cells for hours and guards leaving their posts to eat the detainees' leftover food." He sees the failure to take disciplinary measures as further evidence of a cover-up. Denbeaux stresses that his review not only leaves serious doubt as to the military's conclusions that the deaths were suicides, it also exposes gross misconduct by camp guards and others that went undisciplined ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/law-school-study-finds-ev_n_382085.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. reluctantly kicking

[Bitwit1234]

17. Well Now....lets give him a berth. He can take his vacation there.

[spanone]

18. what joe and many of the rethugs don't get is that america ain't buying that shit no more

people are not stupid, joe.

[Odin2005]

19. Oh fuck him!

[buckrogers1965]

20. We can only hope that Lieberman

Can find a nursing home as humane as Gitmo is when he has become just slightly more of an insane old coot than he already is.

[spanone]

21. the media doesn't question politicians...otherwise they won't get access.

that's how it works.

[boston bean]

22. Dear Connecticut, please recall that POS! nt

[Jennicut]

28. Unfortunately we have no law like that but we do have the 2012 elections to look forward to.

[marmar]

23. Then he should go stay there for a few days.....in the Waterboard Suite.

nt

[HughMoran]

25. Yes Joe, it's a fucking tropical paradise

Can this fellow be any closer to Satan?

[HarveyDarkey]

26. ...

[Ferret Annica]

27. This guy needs to be removed from the Senate.

I cannot stand this guy. I can't stomach the fact he is one of the two senators from my old home state too.

I never got a chance to vote in Connecticut not being old enough when I moved in 1972, but I would dearly enjoy voting against and even working for this guy's opponent.

If I am back there next time he runs, I'll have to volunteer for his opponent from the Democratic Party.

[mmonk]

30. Send the sob there then and give him the treatment.

[MisterP]

31. yeah, yeah, that's what they said about Theresienstadt nt