How About Prison?

Matt Stoller does the key media criticism pushback on Jonathan Weisman's article about how politically risky it is for Democrats to challenge Bush's unpopular indefinite detention policies (my quick hint to congressional reporters would be that if you can't even get Steny Hoyer to fret in public that liberals are going too far, you need to come up with a new story). It's worth reading down to the end so you see how lame some of the GOP talking points are. "The idea that we would import dangerous terrorists, like Khalid Sheik Mohammed, into American communities is dangerous," says Duncan Hunter, who's apparently unfamiliar with our nation's fine federal prison system which includes several facilities designed specifically for the purpose of detaining dangerous individuals and separating them from the larger community. This is not the stuff of which good scare stories are made.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/04/how-about-prison/41911/