A key Congressional Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee proposed Thursday what he's calling "Guantanamo 2.0."
Yes, the kitschy "2.0" epigram can even be applied to political footballs involving potential war crimes.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, said he is planning legislation that would order the facility to be kept open, while assuring the world that torture and mistreatment of detainees has ended.
“What's needed at Guantanamo Bay is transparency and accountability,” Hastings said. “You go back and change the bad things and turn the page.”
Hastings said a colleague dubbed his plan “Guantanamo 2.0." Still in the draft stage, it would assure access to the prison by the United States's Western allies and watchdog groups like Amnesty International and the Red Cross. Add that to President Obama's decision to end "enhanced interrogation," and there isn't a need to close the detention facility, Hastings said.
“All they want to know is that there isn't any torture and people can go there and see,” Hastings said.
Hastings, to his own credit, seems to be a capable political animal. The House of Representatives impeached him from the federal bench in 1989 for allegedly taking a bribe and perjuring himself in testimony about the case. Three years later, he became a Congressman himself.
And now, after an election season full of promises to close this facility, one of the Democrats most important to the process wants to keep it open.
It's as if Democrats are determined to move closer and closer to Republicans every day.
-- Stephen C. Webster
This man is a convicted felon, the 6th federal judge convicted in the history of the United States, for corruption and bribery. Why is anyone listening to him? Why is anyone electing him? Why was he even allowed to run for office again. Oh, I know, he's in the Democrat Party.
Figures.
Good god, who is this shit cock shit cock? Why are you trolling the internets points of credibility and fouling them with your supremely ignorant rants?
"while assuring the world that torture and mistreatment of detainees has ended."
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Yeah right. Bull shit. Who would believe that, other than an Obamabot?
Wow, what a pack of ignorant asswipes, racists and penis-worshippers posting here today.
And to 'R. Krueger', why are people listening to an admitted war criminal, chronic liar and human stain on our democracy, Dick Cheney?
And Gitmo should be closed as soon as possible.
a pile of shit by any other name...
So-called 'Democrat' Rep Hastings is under direct orders from his Republican slave-masters to do their bidding.
Waa, effing waa. Only 3 were watered.
Necessity was the mother of invention, and these prisons were invented for good reasons no matter how bad you want to hate bush for them.
Murderous terrorists need to be beaten into submission and put to death somewhere. Why not gitmo? I agree with this black Democrat. Let the left watch em pick daisys until we hang em.
who cares what the world thinks anyway? They are nothing but a bunch of uneducated socialists crying for handouts in stead of tooling up.