This is a cute little piece:
WASHINGTON, June 27 – Senators from both sides of the aisle competed on Monday to extol the humane treatment of detainees whom they said they saw on a weekend trip to the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. All said they opposed closing the center.
“I feel very good” about the detainees’ treatment, Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, said.
That feeling was also expressed by another Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
On Monday, Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, said he learned while visiting Guantánamo that some detainees “even have air-conditioning and semiprivate showers.”
Another Republican, Senator Michael D. Crapo of Idaho, said soldiers and sailors at the camp “get more abuse from the detainees than they give to the detainees.”
In the last month, several senators, including some Republicans, have suggested that Congress should investigate reports of abuses at the detention center or that the military should close it to remove a blot on the country’s image.
One senator, Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, has come under criticism and apologized repeatedly for comparing reported abuses at the camps to treatment in Soviet gulags or Nazi concentration camps.
Poor old Durbin is getting the cold shoulder from his buddies on both sides of the aisle these days.
OK, now put your thinking cap on, sort of like I did here, and tell us what’s missing and why the Senators might have said what they did besides the obvious.
BTW, Senator Crapo?
With a name like that, …
Please note that I linked an article in the New York Times. Your post is just a lot of bellyaching about Fox News that simply doesn’t apply.
Just because it’s in the NY Times doesn’t mean that there isn’t stuff left out.
Like how the last time a Congressional delegation was hyped in the media, it turned out that certain events like interrogations were completely staged.
They did, however, note Amnesty International’s quote, which, I guess you left out because it doesn’t fit in with what you think is reality.
I linked the whole piece, you can summarize it as you wish.