Of course, you have a lot more to answer for if you're a Republican. You own Guantanamo.
“What is the moral superiority of the United States of America if we torture prisoners?” Mr. McCain said shortly before the election. Mr. Obama vowed to shut down the prison during his first year in office, calling it a legal and moral abomination. ...NYT
Okay. John McCain. But that's about all.
Fortunately, there is a way for Obama to follow through on his promise or at least get the Republican abuses out in the open and on their record. The fight is on to give United Nations' investigator and "rapporteur," Juan Méndez, inside the prison to document the treatment of prisoners.
The defense team of Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the detainees at Guantánamo who is being tried in connection with the 9/11 attacks, filed a motion in May asking the military commission to allow him to meet with Mr. Méndez. Thomas Pickering, a veteran diplomat who has served as ambassador to Russia, India and the United Nations in Republican and Democratic administrations, has filed a memorandum supporting this request. Mr. Pickering wrote that recent reports of “heavy-handed and even brutal force-feedings, indifferent medical care, unacceptably cold stainless steel cells, indefinite solitary confinement” at Guantánamo may constitute violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture. The United States is a signatory of both. ...NYT
