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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
While I agree with you in general about attention whores in congress, I don't think Bill Frist and John McCain would be complaining if they didn't think congress should have justifiably been notified. This makes them look bad as well as Bush, so I think the secrecy was unfounded.
Complaints about the prison have been pouring in for quite a while, so I don't see any need for secrecy here. Secrecy belongs in cases of National Security, not to cover up National Embarassments. It's a tool for security, not public relations. Any other use is abuse.
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McCain et al would look worse if they knew about it and nothing was accomplished by the time the story broke. These things aren't dealt with instantly and it takes time to get them under control and to investigate/punish those responsible. It appears that things were being done to deal with the abuse even before the story broke. If these abuses were being tolerated when they were known to be occurring that's a different story, but until I see evidence of that happening I am fine with how the process was used.