[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9232]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TIMING OF RED CROSS CONCERNS

  (Mr. CONYERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, reading the Wall Street Journal yesterday, 
which I read more than some suspect, I was told that the Red Cross had 
complained to Secretary of State Colin Powell about the prison abuses 
and torture and other embarrassments for months, which was a new 
revelation to me.
  But today the Baltimore Sun says, and here it is, ``Powell says Bush 
was informed of Red Cross concerns and that he had been fully informed 
in general terms about complaints made by the Red Cross and others over 
ill-treatment of detainees in custody.''
  Now, this is not about privates and corporals. And, by the way, the 
woman in charge of the camp said that she was put under pressure.

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