Apparently good old Yankee ingenuity is alive at Gitmo.
“The sands are white, the sea laps gently and crowds of bronzed Americans laze in the Caribbean sunshine.
They have a cinema, a golf course and, naturally, a gift shop stocked with mugs, jaunty T-shirts and racks of postcards showing perfect sunsets and bright green iguanas.
Only the barbed [...]

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You remember Nicholas Kristof, he is at the heart of still many unanswered questions about the Plame Game. Well today he exposes the harsh god-aweful treatment of a inmate at Club Gitmo.
“The most famous journalist you may never have heard of is Sami al-Hajj, an Al Jazeera cameraman who is on a hunger strike [...]

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As it should be.
“PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris prosecutors’ office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of torture, human rights groups who brought the case said on Friday.
The plaintiffs, who included the French-based International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) and the U.S. Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), [...]

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As I told you yesterday it would, it failed.
“The Senate voted on Wednesday against considering a measure to give Guantanamo detainees and other foreigners the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts.
The legislation needed 60 votes to be considered by lawmakers in the Senate, narrowly controlled by Democrats; it received only 56, with [...]

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Poor baby….
“Several human rights groups Friday raised concern over the US government’s intent to repatriate a Guantanamo prisoner to Libya, despite his fear that he will be tortured.
“The US is ignoring (Abdul Rauf) al-Qassim‚Äôs credible fear of torture by relying on a promise of no torture from Libya, a country with a documented record of [...]

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David Hicks is claiming that beatings went on at Guantanamo Bay.  This is yet another claim of torture.
Like most of the others, it probably is phonier than a three-dollar bill.  Torture has never been approved under U.S. policy.  Yet we have an outlet of the New York Times taking the story at face value.  Followed [...]

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On Bill O’Reilly show last night his guest was ABC’s Brian Ross and the subject was the effectiveness of “strong interrogation” techniques.
Allah Pundit has the video. I am not a fan of Brian Ross, he’s a hack who wants us to remember, “We’re journalists, not bloggers. But we do have a [...]

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You have got to be kidding me…..
This is torture?
“The techniques sought by the CIA are: induced hypothermia; forcing suspects to stand for prolonged periods; sleep deprivation; a technique called “the attention grab” where a suspect’s shirt is forcefully seized; the “attention slap” or open hand slapping that hurts but does not lead to physical damage; [...]

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Guess what? The MSM has crossed over into defining legislation as they redefine the President’s legislation on detainee treatment and interrogation as “torture legislation”.
My, my,…..what kind of world so we live in when we “torture” terrorists?
Well, perhaps Columnist Robert Miniter, who actually toured Gitmo, can enlighten us as to what kind of “torture” these [...]

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