I watched Pence closely at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee during June of 2005. Chairman James Sensenbrenner was trying to demonstrate the absurdity of charges against America by Amnesty International. Among other things, Amnesty International had reported that Guantanamo was an "American Gulag." Sensenbrenner made a gutsy effort to bring some accountability to these Hate-America creeps--their leader, Chip Pitts was the main witness. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Pence (there was another Republican, Congressman Coble, who supported him) undermined the Chairman's effort at every turn. They sucked up to witness Pitts, who refused to back off the Gulag accusation. For reasons it's hard for me to understand, they seemed to show boundless admiration for Amnesty International and Chip Pitts. When the guerilla theater put on by the "guests" seemed to be getting out of hand, Chairman Sensenbrenner banged the gavel and adjoined the hearing. At least, Pence didn't stay for the unofficial hearing the AI people tried to keep going--he left behind Sensenbrenner. I think Pence's behavior may be motivated by craving the approval of the NY Times and its media clones. I hate to have to think this of a so-called "conservative leader."
I think that the NY Times editor and reporters and their leakers are traitors in my meaning of the word. They publicized classified information that will very likely result in the deaths of more Americans. Why would anyone want to give them special protections that other Americans do not have. You and I must answer truthfully after being subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating a crime. Reporters should be treated no better or worse.
Imagine this under a reporter's shield law. A clever and unethical reporter could carefully concoct a false story to hurt someone he wants to wound. If the unethical reporter wanted to attribute his story to anonymous sources, and had carefully set up his fraud, there would be no way to prove the falseness of the story. And God knows, there are plenty of unethical reporters.
you sir,are not telling the truth.
Mike Pence led the charge against amnesty international.Be honest.
Yesterday Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, said Amnesty should either retract or clarify its comments.
"To suggest that in all of the world, the gulag of our times is not the death camps that are the natural progeny of the gulags of the Soviet empire that exist today in North Korea but that Guantanamo Bay is, that seems to me, as I said, anti-historical, irresponsible and the type of rhetoric that endangers American lives," Mr. Pence said.
But Mr. Pitts did not back down.
"It's not Amnesty that is putting the United States in this position, and it's not just Amnesty's reports," he said.
Mr. Pitts also pointed to studies that he said show an increase in terrorism, and said that's the result of American abuses: "I think that's more than just a correlation, it's causation."
Mr. Bush has called Amnesty's charges "absurd" and challenged the credibility of the organization, but Mr. Pitts said U.S. policy is absurd.
"I think it's absurd for the United States to create a legal black hole, and it's time to fill in that legal black hole and shut Guantanamo," he said.
Mr. Pence said afterward that Mr. Pitts' answers did not defend comparing the U.S. record to the gulag.
"I found it woefully inadequate," he said. "His response to 20 million murdered civilians in the gulag [was] he referred to one death under questionable circumstances at Guantanamo."
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050610-113618-7373r_page2.htm
Tempers flared when Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., accused Amnesty International of endangering the lives of Americans in uniform by referring to the prison at Guantanamo Bay as a "gulag." Sensenbrenner didn't allow the Amnesty representative, Chip Pitts, to respond until Nadler raised a "point of decency."
http://www.morethings.com/log/2005/06/james-sensenbrenner-stifles.html
