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scaeagles · 06-28-2005, 03:02 PM

Senator Wyden, D of Oregon and certainly no friend of the Bush administration, after a trip this past weekend, seems to think Gitmo is no gulag:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160859,00.html

Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden (search) of Oregon and Ben Nelson (search) of Nebraska said that while they believe some kind of standard should be set for the status and treatment of the prisoners there, they did not observe anything in interrogation practices or conditions that would prompt them to agree with a call to shut the facility down.

"It is my opinion that closing the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay (search) would result in less accountability in the treatment of prisoners, not more," Wyden said. "The question we have to ask is who do we trust more to treat these prisoners humanely — Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt or the United States?"

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Wyden said that past practices he had heard about at Guantanamo, a.k.a. Gitmo, have been changed, and procedures and conditions at Camp Delta, where the prisoners are housed, offer the best commitment to human rights.

06-28-2005, 03:02 PM	#54
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Senator Wyden, D of Oregon and certainly no friend of the Bush administration, after a trip this past weekend, seems to think Gitmo is no gulag: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160859,00.html Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden (search) of Oregon and Ben Nelson (search) of Nebraska said that while they believe some kind of standard should be set for the status and treatment of the prisoners there, they did not observe anything in interrogation practices or conditions that would prompt them to agree with a call to shut the facility down. "It is my opinion that closing the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay (search) would result in less accountability in the treatment of prisoners, not more," Wyden said. "The question we have to ask is who do we trust more to treat these prisoners humanely — Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt or the United States?" ....... Wyden said that past practices he had heard about at Guantanamo, a.k.a. Gitmo, have been changed, and procedures and conditions at Camp Delta, where the prisoners are housed, offer the best commitment to human rights.
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