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To: DMaA who wrote (120893)6/19/2005 4:19:59 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793727
 
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

using the well of the Senate to make verifiably false accusations

I haven't been able to locate the full text of Durbin's remarks. The only think I've seen is the bit about the incidents in the FBI report and how we wouldn't expect the good guys to do that. That's the bit that's gotten all the attention.

By false accusations, are you talking about him repeating the incidents that appeared in the FBI report. That's the only bit that could be called an accusation in the text that I've seen. Or are there accusations I haven't seen.

[This is the text that I've seen:

On Tuesday, Democratic whip Dick Durbin rose and he began reading what he said was a report that an FBI agent had submitted to Pentagon investigators about what went on there.

SEN. DICK DURBIN: Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:

"On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves and had been left there for eighteen to twenty-four hours or more."

If I read this to you and didn't tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have happened by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime, Pol Pot or others, that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that's not the case. This was the action of Americans in treatment of their own prisoners. ]
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