As Hugh Hewitt would say, Amnesty International has forgotten the "first rule of holes":
The head of Amnesty International's American branch yesterday acknowledged that he "doesn't know for sure" what is going on at Guantanamo Bay prison, although Amnesty International's secretary-general has called the terrorist prison run at a U.S. military base in Cuba a "gulag."
This, then is an admission that the charge was a slander.
However, William F. Schulz defended the description made last week by Irene Khan, saying on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday that America's "archipelago of prisons throughout the world" are "similar in character, if not in size" to the Soviet gulags, where millions of political prisoners were killed.
Did Schulz mention where he bought the crack he was smoking when he uttered this delusional statement? There's a picture of him with the article. He appears to be old enough to remember Solzhinitsin, Sakharov and all that.
"I don't believe [the charges] are irresponsible," said Mr. Schulz, the executive director of Amnesty International U.S.A. "I've told you the ways in which I think that [there are] analogies between the Soviet prison system and the United States."
Um, I guess he means they both ran prisons? Someone get this moron a copy of The Gulag Archipelago -- no, make that a Cliff's Notes summary -- he obviously lacks the attention span to finish the original.
Pressed to cite concrete evidence that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales are the "architects" of "systematic torture" at the prison, Mr. Schulz could produce none.
"We don't know for sure what all is happening at Guantanamo and our whole point is that the United States ought to allow independent human rights organizations to investigate," Mr. Schulz said, adding that Amnesty International was careful to use the word "alleged" when accusing high-level Bush administration officials.
That makes it all better. Suppose we just call Mr. Schulz an "alleged alien invader from an evil advanced race that intends to kill us all." Note that I wrote "alleged."
"We try to hold up one universal standard for all countries," Mr. Schulz said.
I want to write a sarcastic comment here, but self-parody is always the most effective satire.
