Manhattan DA Calls Guantanamo National Disgrace

[struggle4progress]

Source: Reuters

~snip~ "Guantanamo Bay in my view is a national disgrace. I don't think you can abuse the rights -- and physical abuse -- of people in your custody," <Manhattan District Attorney Robert> Morgenthau, 87, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

Morgenthau has been New York state's chief prosecutor in Manhattan for 33 years, elected eight times as a Democrat who often wins the official support of the Republican Party.

He previously served as a U.S. attorney in New York until, Morgenthau notes proudly, he was fired by President Richard Nixon in 1969 while investigating Nixon's role in establishing a Swiss bank account with funds from former Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.

Morgenthau compared his firing with the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors last year before their four-year terms had expired. ~snip~

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[tanyev]

1. Deja vu--fired by Nixon for investigating Nixon's role in establishing a Swiss bank account

They really are working off the same script.