WorldNetDaily columnist (and Slantie winner) Mychal Massie falsely cast doubt on documents upon which Sen. Richard Durbin based his claim (for which he has since apologized) that U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was akin to Nazis and other brutal dictators.
Ini his June 28 column, Massie claimed Durbin’s statement was “based on an unsubstantiated – and as yet unseen – FBI report.” He later claimed Durbin cited an “alleged FBI report.”
In fact, the documents cited by Durbin — released by the federal government through a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union — are publicly available. Only Massie has questioned their authenticity.
In his June 21 WND column, Massie discounted the claim Durbin cited of a prisoner who had torn his hair out after suffering alleged abusive treatment: “Prisoners who are freezing or suffering from heat exposure do not pull their hair out, but unstable psychotics do.”