Posted on 03/09/2011 9:26:19 AM PST by Libloather
U.S. lawmakers keep quiet about Guantanamo tour
By Lesley Clark | The Miami Herald
Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Rep. Allen West toured the secretive Camp 7 at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — where the alleged Sept. 11 plotters are held — but wouldn’t say Tuesday what he saw.
“There’s nothing more I can say other than the fact I saw Camp 7,” the Broward Republican told reporters on a conference call, hours after he and a bipartisan delegation of House Armed Services Committee members returned from a daylong tour of the offshore detention camp. “It looks like a Camp 7.”
The reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators are held at the secluded site and West did acknowledge, “I did see one very popular individual.”
But he had no interaction with any detainees: “That’s not part of the protocol there,” he said.
Still, West said he believes the detainees get better treatment than some U.S. prisoners.
“I found detainees have first-class medical care, access to 21 satellite TV stations, and bountiful meals," the Tea Party star tweeted Tuesday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
Give the worst perp a chair and Allen West a gun. Things get done that way.
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