Thanks to Hugh Hewitt for including a link to the Minneapolis Star Tribune's editorial on Senator Dick Durbin's comments about Gitmo.
A lot has been said about Senator Durbin's comments, by the Left and the Right, and this issue doesn't look as though it's going to be fading any time soon. To recap, Durbin--on the floor of the Senate--quoted an email from an FBI agent, and the email is unconfirmed, uncorroborated, and under investigation. The email, in part, said, "On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold . . . . On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees."
What fascinated me most in the Strib's editorial, beyond their full embrace of everything Durbin said, was their statement near the end.
"The senator [Durbin] should stop apologizing and keep up the criticism of the hellhole America's military has created at Guantanamo."
If Guantanamo is a hellhole, what's it doing with air-conditioning?
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