State Dept. blasts UN report on Guantanamo (shoots the messenger)

http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2006/02/13/afx2523230.html

A draft of the UN report concludes that the US treatment of Guantanamo detainees violates their rights to physical and mental health and, in some cases, constitutes torture, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The text also urges the US to close the prison at the US naval base in Cuba and try the detainees on US territory, charging that Washington's justification for the continued detention is a distortion of international law.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack complained the authors wrote the report without seeing the prison.

'When people hear these press reports about these outcomes and when they actually view the final report, I would urge them to look at it in the context of the fact that nobody who wrote this report actually went to Guantanamo,' McCormack said.

'So this is baseless assertion, at least what we have seen so far,' he said.

UN human rights experts cancelled a scheduled visit to Guantanamo late last year after failing to secure assurances from the US that they could could speak freely to prisoners

Don't they understand that they need to put their face right down *into* the sh*t to have a valid opinion of it? :sarcasm:

Come on...you can smell it from here.

"... authors wrote the report without seeing the prison."

"... cancelled a scheduled visit after failing to secure assurances from the US that they could could speak freely to prisoners."

Ipso facto ...

,...the U.S.A.

Meanwhile, the "purity" of the U.S.A. has proven sterile.

The U.S.A., via its "virtuous powers and values" has proven itself subject to the very evils it SWEARS to fight.

Arrogance,....KILLS,...always.

The article leaves out all the important info including how the UN came to the conclusions?