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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/che...ntl/index.html
Cheney offended by Amnesty criticism
Rights group accuses U.S. of violations at Guantanamo Bay
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 Posted: 5:13 AM EDT (0913 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he was offended by Amnesty International's condemnation of the United States for what it called "serious human rights violations" at Guantanamo Bay.
"For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously," he said in an interview that aired Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."
Amnesty International was scathing last week in its criticism of the way the United States has run the detention center at its naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"We have documented that the U.S. government is a leading purveyor and practitioner of the odious human rights violation," William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said Wednesday.
On its Web site, the London, England-based human rights group says: "As evidence of torture and widespread cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment mounts, it is more urgent than ever that the U.S. government bring the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and any other facilities it is operating outside the USA into full compliance with international law and standards. The only alternative is to close them down."..............
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On his blog, John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, not only feels Cheney's pain, but reminds Cheney of Conyer's "open invitation from me to come before the Members of Congress to testify about what he knows."
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http://www.conyersblog.us/
...........Finally, where does Dick Cheney come off saying he was "offended" by Amnesty International's recent report on U.S. human rights abuses <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.amnestyintl/index.html">(see CNN story)</a>? If he is that concerned, he ought to do something about our record, and the Administration's unwillingess to tell the full story in public. The Vice President has an open invitation from me to come before the Members of Congress to testify about what he knows. The only way to truly restore our nation's good name is to permit a a real, independent and credible entity to investigate our nation's record in Guantanamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, as I have repeatedly called for. That hasn't happened yet, and I doubt it will until we get a new Congress, or a new Administration -- or both.
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It is very difficult for me to take anything that Cheney or Bush say, seriously.