More instruction for the Dumb Dick Durbin: In May 1969, I was taken out for interrogation on suspicion of planning an escape. I was forced to remain awake for long periods of time -- three weeks on one occasion. On the first of June, I was put in a cement box with a steel door, […]
A lot of Gitmo critics have pooh-poohed the idea that we could be getting any sorts of useful information from the terrorists at the facility since they've been there now for three-plus years. That much time out of circulation makes whatever information they may have next to useless, critics claim. However, Fox News reporter Molly […]
The left has lost it. Even those whom you could once count on being as on the sensible center-left like Andrew Sullivan [third item] appear to have chosen instead to dive head first into America-hating insanity. On yesterday's "Fox News Watch," they briefly addressed the differences in coverage between Sen. Dick Durbin's American servicemen=Nazis and […]
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin "apologized" on the Senate floor yesterday -- sort of. "More than most people, a Senator lives by his words, words are the coin of the realm in our profession. Occasionally words will fail us and occasionally we will fail words." "On June 14, I took the floor of the Senate to […]
Volokh co-conspirator and the only person to gratuitously use my name in a newspaper column, David Kopel has a sensible suggestion on having a reasonable discussion on Guantanamo Bay. The more plausible analogy to Guantanamo is British interrogation of Irish Republican Army suspects in the early 1970s. Then, the British extracted confessions through "the five […]
Sen. Dick "U.S. troops are like Nazis" Durbin might find it enlightening to read this New York Times story which describes what torture really is -- and it doesn't involve Christina Aguilera. When marines [sic] burst in, one of the captives was lying under a stairwell, badly beaten. At first, they thought he was dead. […]
Sen. Dick Durbin has done a limited pullback on his slander of American troops. “More than 1700 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and our country’s standing in the world community has been badly damaged by the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. My statement in the Senate was critical of the policies […]
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin again refused yesterday to apologize for comparing American troops to Nazis, the jailers of Stalin's gulag and Pol Pot and his murderous regime. Michelle Malkin has a handy roundup of links. Little Green Footballs' Charles Johnson dipped his toe in the sewer and got a little "Screw Them" Kos infection. Among […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Susan Paynter, hasn't used her latest opportunity to give the other side of the story. She's obviously in no hurry -- in fact, it appears she has a history of just telling one side of the story.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin -- in an outrageous display of historical ignorance, hyperbole and idiocy [link PDF document] -- compared U.S. servicemen and women to Nazis. When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]--I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have […]