Latest brilliance from Democrats: Let’s just make Gitmo more trasnsparent!

Well, so much for having to close it to save our image in the world I guess!

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, said he is planning legislation that would order the facility to be kept open, while assuring the world that torture and mistreatment of detainees has ended.

“What’s needed at Guantanamo Bay is transparency and accountability,” Hastings said. “You go back and change the bad things and turn the page.”

Hastings said a colleague dubbed his plan “Guantanamo 2.0.” Still in the draft stage, it would assure access to the prison by the United States’s Western allies and watchdog groups like Amnesty International and the Red Cross. Add that to President Obama’s decision to end “enhanced interrogation,” and there isn’t a need to close the detention facility, Hastings said.

“All they want to know is that there isn’t any torture and people can go there and see,” Hastings said.

Well, I guess now that they realize that closing Gitmo is not a piece of cake, they are looking to keep it open and save face as well.

H/T Ace of Spades

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