Intel Dem: Fix Gitmo — don't close it

[BlueJessamine]

Source: The Hill

A key House Democrat on intelligence matters believes that Guantanamo Bay doesn't need to be closed, but rather, needs to be fixed.

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.


Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/intell-dem-fix-gitmo-dont-close-it-2009-05-21.html

[Mari333]

1. she is fcking insane. nt

[PNutt]

7. Alcee Hastings

Is a man........a ghetto bum from Florida..............one of those that make you cringe when you realize that he is a Democrat......

[No Elephants]

20. Ghetto bum?

[ShortnFiery]

2. NO, that's a non-starter. GIT-MO will be history. It's a rallying cry for all those

who have had friends and relatives KILLED by our smart bombs to join "the resistance" in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Git-mo is a symbol of AMERICAN TORTURE CHAMBERS.

[rwheeler31]

3. Terrible idea.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Another D that needs a primary challenger

[Xipe Totec]

5. You can't fix stupid. n/t

[ddiver]

6. "turn the page" .... is that like telling us to move on?

[Patsy Stone]

8. Welcome to DU!

Alcee Hastings is a piece of work. It's best to ignore him.

[ConcernedCanuk]

16. wing-nut for an avatar - hmmm

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anyhoo - hope ur a "good" addition to DU

Welcome if you are!

:hi:

[ddiver]

19. It was an avatar choice given. Are you the avatar police?

[ConcernedCanuk]

21. no

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[DeSwiss]

9. I always say, know your source:

Alcee Hastings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings#Impeachment">Impeachment
In 1981, Hastings was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of racketeering by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. He was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court (resulting in a jail sentence for Borders).

In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413-3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate.

- What an asshole.....

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. LOL - your comment "What an asshole" plus that image reminded me of an old joke

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An old lady upon seeing her grandson sporting facial hair on his upper lip and chin asked him what he called it.

He responded "It's a goatee"

"WHAT?" she asked

"IT'S A GOATEE!" her grandson said, "why do you ask?"

Oh - I got something like that just started growing around my asshole,

and didn't know what to call it!

[MikeNearMcChord]

10. How about closing Guantanamo, and give it back to the Cubans?

This stupidity must end.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Guantanamo should be returned to the Cubans

It was stolen by the US as a pre-condition for Cuban independence.

[AlphaCentauri]

15. Amen

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. yup

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:thumbsup:

[riverdeep]

12. Reopen Auschwitz while we're at it. n/t

[PSPS]

13. That's what I thought. "Don't close Auschwitz, fix it! Auschwitz 2.0!!11!"

[Solly Mack]

14. Hmmmm. NO