Getting Out of Gitmo
Posted by: Clay Waters
6/19/2006 3:38:07 PM
Sunday's Week in Review leads with Scott Shane’s “Seeking An Exit Strategy for Guantanamo,” the latest entry in the paper’s obsession with Gitmo and Abu Ghraib.
Shane, who last July painted anti-war misleader Joseph Wilson as a victim of Bush, overstates things right from the start: “If an enemy devised a diabolical plot to darken America's image, it is hard to imagine anything operating more efficiently toward that end than the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. And last week, after the suicides of three inmates intensified condemnation at home and abroad, President Bush mused about whether the camp should be closed.”
Later Shane provides some misleading labeling: “For civil libertarians, it is urgent to come up with a solution to the Guantánamo conundrum and the underlying question of how to treat terrorist suspects. ‘It's set the cause of human rights back permanently,’ said Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, whose lawyers are co-counsels for 200 Guantánamo detainees. ‘For decades,’ he said, the recent practices ‘will be a green light for other countries that that want to go off the page of fundamental human rights.’”
This is just the latest instance of the Times erroneously awarding the far-left CCR (founded by far-left lawyer William Kunstler) the undeserved “civil libertarian” glow.
On December 21 of last year, CCR President Michael Ratner ranted in a press release: “The Bush administration has moved us from a government responsible and accountable to the people to one that dictates to the people. Every American should be in political rebellion against the criminals now running this country."
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