Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantanamo - No kidding!

It should be pretty clear in this NYT's story, that the International Committee of the Red Cross has an agenda that supports ALL prisoner rights and gives little credence to the efforts by those that hold prisoners in any positive terms. I believe that the ICRC would find abuse if the US gave each detainee their own home, brought their families over, and never spoke with them except to ask if there was anything else they needed to make their stay more comfortable:

"Ms. Megevand-Roggo, the committee's delegate-general for Europe and the Americas, acknowledged that the issue of confidentiality was a chronic and vexing one for the organization. 'Many people do not understand why we have these bilateral agreements about confidentiality,' she said. 'People are led to believe that we are a fig leaf or worse, that we are complicit with the detaining authorities.'

She added, 'It's a daily dilemma for us to put in the balance the positive effects our visits have for detainees against the confidentiality.'"

UPDATE: This editorial from the WSJ describes the evolution of the ICRC and the current state of their political agenda quite nicely.