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"Thanks to last year's McCain Amendment, the Defense Department is already required to give detainees in its custody better treatment than American police must give common criminals. "

JAG Hunter here: This totem pole isn't hard to read.

Congress and Pentagon commanders (assisted by staff JAGs) have spent more time in our country's history working to protect America's enemies than time spent considering and adopting protections for our own military personnel. Enemy belligerents are treated better than common U.S. civilian criminals who are treated better than American servicemen like the "Pendleton Eight."

I hate politics!