KO just reported that Red Cross will interview new Gitmo detainees

[spanone]

Next Week. You're right george, time is running out.

This is the first time that these folks will have had any touch with the outside world. Including families.

[GetTheRightVote]

1. It is time for the truth to be discovered and displayed to others.

Time for * to pay for his crimes as well.

:kick:

[spanone]

2. Let's hope so.

[Avalux]

3. Jonathan Turley commented on this last night -

he expects the Red Cross will get an earful from the detainees and then the ugly truth will come out. Yep, time is running out George; better get that retroactive torture bill passed FAST.

[NOLADEM]

4. I smell disappointment coming

The real detainees they are torturing the shit out of will be well hidden and never seen. The compliant, fearful guys they have broken and are willing to say anything will be front and center in their Sunday best, eating prime rib and drinking a fine port, with the threat that they have seen nothing yet if they say a word.

[WatchWhatISay]

5. Now begins the PR campaign to smear the Red Cross as Obsolete

Stuck in the pre-terrorist past. Just havent adapted to the new reality of the post 9/11 world have they :sarcasm:

[Jade Fox]

6. You mean the same Red Cross that refused a million dollar donation...

from the Dixie Chicks because.....well, you know.

I understand the Red Cross is very Right-wing at it's Administration level. I hope this doesn't affect these interviews.

[leftchick]

7. here is a WaPo link....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901430.html

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Representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross are scheduled to begin meetings Monday with the 14 terrorism suspects who were held for years in secret CIA custody, the detainees' first contact with the outside world since they were captured after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The meetings will be part of a routine Red Cross visit to the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said Simon Schorno, a Red Cross spokesman in Washington. About 12 officials, including interpreters, will spend about two weeks at the camp, he said.


Red Cross officials have met regularly with the hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay since early 2002 but have never before gained access to detainees in U.S. custody in secret prisons around the world.

Schorno said the Red Cross has been hoping to speak to anyone who was held in a CIA-run prison.

"It has been a priority of ours to gain access to those people," he said. "It's something that we have expressed our discomfort and problem with several times."

[Pale Blue Dot]

8. No offense, but Rachel Maddow reported this first

on AirAmerica radio tonight. She even had an interview with someone from the Red Cross about it.

As was made clear in her interview, the Red Cross usually does not make their reports publicly available, as part of a deal to maintain access to prisoners. However, the official did leave open the possibility of some kind of "public comment" on the matter.

Really, you should listen to Rachel Maddow, 6-8 on AirAmerica. It's a great show, and it's over just in time for KO.