Trust Us: We're The Government

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday strongly defended the military's treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, calling the prison, which has been harshly criticized by human-rights organizations and others, a "model facility".

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in an interview, brushed off growing calls for an independent investigation of conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and labeled as "absurd" a new Amnesty International report equating the facility with Soviet-era gulags.

She said an outside investigation of the facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba was not necessary.

Posted by Eddie Tews at May 30, 2005 09:20 AM