Back before the ADD nation stopped paying attention to the atrocities happening daily to the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, California Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter attempted to diffuse some of the pressure felt by his fellow torture hawks by holding one of the more bizarre press conferences in recent memory.

"This is the oven-fried chicken entree. It has broccoli, it has peas and mushrooms, it has rice, it has pita bread, and it has two types of fruit. This is what Osama bin Laden's bodyguards will eat several times a cycle, several times a week. This is lemon chicken, rice, broccoli, carrots, bread and two types of fruit.
Now, if you look through the menu that we -- that we serve -- and this is, in fact, the complete menu that we're contracted for -- you will see that this isn't simply a high point in the menu. This is representative of what these killers are given every day courtesy of the American taxpayer.
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So the point is that the inmates in Guantanamo have never eaten better, they've never been treated better, and they've never been more comfortable in their lives than in this situation. And the idea that sometime -- that somehow we are torturing people in Guantanamo is absolutely not true, unless you consider having to eat chicken three times a week real torture.
Barely contained in the photo op was the sense that if it were up to Hunter, the prisoners, some of whom our own government admits are innocent, would be cannibalizing each other, using their own urine as sauce to mitigate incarceration expenditures.
Well, today Hunter is probably thanking Allah for his thinly hedged phrasing. He might soon find himself a bit less free than he'd like:
According to published reports and congressional and law-enforcement sources who did not want to be identified discussing a sensitive investigation, the Feds are also reviewing [Corrupt defense contractor Brett] Wilkes's ties to other powerful House leaders. Former GOP majority leader Tom DeLay, Armed Services Committee chairman Duncan Hunter and Appropriations Committee chairman Jerry Lewis all reportedly had dealings with Wilkes.
The only question left is whether Hunter will favorably compare his time in the Big House with his tenure in the House. I'll go on record predicting that he'll consider his daily ass-pounding the best treatment he's ever received, not to mention the most comfortable he'll ever be. Remember Duncan, what happens in the can, stays in the can.
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