One Conservative Stands Up

Against the Gitmo detainee hearings.

He has been called a whistleblower and a traitor. On July 26, he is to testify before a House committee. His road to notoriety, he says, is entirely of a piece with his biography. A political conservative who says he cried when Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency, he says he has remained a reservist throughout his adult life to repay the country for the opportunities it offered his family. His father is a Holocaust survivor who emigrated after the Second World War. “It is my duty,” Colonel Abraham said of his decision to come forward. (snip) During one of the recent interviews, Colonel Abraham said that the general accusations that detainees were jihadists without much more alarmed him. “As an intelligence agent, I would have written ‘junk statement’ across that,” he said. … .. Unlikely Adversary Arises to Criticize Detainee Hearings

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