July 29, 2005: NORTON OFF TO GUANTANAMO BAY TO CLARIFY CONTROVERSIES INVOLVING DETAINEES
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July 29, 2005
NORTON OFF TO GUANTANAMO BAY
TO CLARIFY CONTROVERSIES INVOLVING DETAINEES
Washington, DC—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will make her second trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to inspect detainee facilities for terrorist suspects on Monday, August 1, 2005. Norton, who made a similar trip in February of last year, signed on to the one-day congressional delegation visit hosted by the Government Reform Committee on which she serves. She wants “to try to clear up terrible discrepancies between the humanitarian treatment and questioning of suspects members of Congress witnessed in 2004 and the evidence of abuse at Guantanamo that has been reported since.” Norton later published an op-ed in the Washington Post (“Questions for Gonzales…,” January 15, 2005) describing a “dog and pony show” of “benign interrogations we were shown…” while “torture was apparently occurring.” Major Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who later commanded Abu Ghraib where similar abuses have been documented, helped brief the 2004 congressional delegation.