Durbin to Oversee Detainee Treatment

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Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 10:12 am PST • Views: 571

Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Patrick Leahy is promising “real oversight” of the FBI, to make them even more politically correct and useless than ever.

And to head a new subcommittee on human rights, Leahy has appointed the man who compared the American military to Nazis, the Soviet KGB, and Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge:

Leahy also revealed that Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., will chair a new subcommittee on human rights. The new panel’s agenda will include overseeing legislation on torture and detainee treatment.

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