DURBIN COMES UNHINGED, TRIBUNE YAWNS: Normally, when a paper's home state Senator has an out-of-mind experience on the floor of the United States Senate it makes for good copy. Not at The Chicago Tribune. As almost everyone in America knows by now, Dick Durbin said something remarkable yesterday:
When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here—I almost hesitate to put them in the RECORD, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:
On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained
hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water.
Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for
18–24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down
so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee
was shaking with cold. . . . On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been
turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100
degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair
next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout
the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but
extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the
day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the
tile floor.
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