They’re not much exercised about prewar lies, but exposing US gulags – well, they’re not having any of that:
- Congress’s top Republican leaders yesterday demanded an immediate joint House and Senate investigation into the disclosure of classified information to The Washington Post that detailed a web of secret prisons being used to house and interrogate terrorism suspects.
The Post’s article, published on Nov. 2, has led to new questions about the treatment of detainees and the CIA’s use of “black sites” in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. The issue dogged President Bush in his recent trip to Latin America and has created consternation in Eastern Europe.
“If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks,” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) wrote in a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees.
That’s right: it’s the disclosure that so outrages these paragons of morality.
While we’re on the topic of your tax dollars and the toilets they end up feeding…
When’s the last time you took a vacation? Did you stay in a place like this? No? Well, maybe Ahmed will steal a towel for you. It’s the least he could do, really.