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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (688750)	7/1/2005 4:00:54 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) of 769667

A number of committee members visited Guantanamo over the weekend as the Pentagon sought to deflect demands that the prison be closed or subjected to an independent review because of allegations of torture and abuse of detainees. The lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, said conditions there were better than they had expected. "I think we've laid to rest any of what I consider to be very irresponsible allegations," Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who chairs the committee, said after a hearing with Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the Guantanamo prison commander. Rep. Madeleine Bordallo, a Democrat from Guam, said the prison camp was "more like a resort," and said she enjoyed dining on the same meals the detainees ate.

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