[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13517]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       INVESTIGATE GUANTANAMO BAY

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the House had an opportunity to 
see what really happened at Guantanamo Bay. If the Republicans are so 
sure that nothing bad happened there, why can we not have some 
hearings?
  Now, they continued to be reassured by the White House. This is the 
White House that told them there were weapons of mass destruction in 
Iraq. This is the administration that told them that the oil industry 
in Iraq would pay for all the reconstruction. We are now about $300 
billion in. And this is the administration that last month said we are 
in the last throes of the insurgency.
  If anybody on this floor ever served in the military, you know that 
what went on in Abu Ghraib and what goes on in Guantanamo did not start 
at the private and the corporal level. It started at the top. And until 
we do an investigation of the policy papers that were put out of the 
White House from the Attorney General who was then the President's 
counsel and the general, General Sanchez, he just got promoted. This is 
the guy in charge of Abu Ghraib. They put six or eight guys in jail, 
but he got a promotion. That needs an investigation.

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