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White House slams lawmaker over Guantanamo comparison to Nazis WHITE HOUSE The White House is slamming a Democratic senator for comparing interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay to those used by the Nazis, the Soviets and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Press Secretary Scott McClellan calls Dick Durbin's remarks "beyond belief." He says U-S soldiers "go out of their way" to treat prisoners humanely. Durbin -- the Senate's number-two Democrat -- took to the Senate floor Tuesday to read from an F-B-I report describing treatment at the prison for terror suspects. He then said if a listener didn't know, he or...

Thursday on the show! Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, is our guest to respond to the White House calling his remarks "Reprehensible" regarding a report he read on the Senate floor of an FBI agent who described the treatment of prisoners at Gitmo. — Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-FL, joins the show to discuss the vote on the "Patriot Act", the "Downing Street Memo" hearing, and the autopsy results on Terri Schiavo. — Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, is our guest to talk about his amendment to curtail the FBI's ability to seize library and bookstore records with the "Patriot Act". — Joe...