ANOTHER EXPRESSION OF DEVOTED PUBLIC SERVICE AND SINCERE INQUIRY - AT 8:22 A.M. ET:  I guess he thinks no one is watching:

WASHINGTON — Congress wants to meet the Uighurs — in sunny Bermuda.

A top Democrat is planning a field hearing in the Atlantic paradise to give four ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates recently resettled there a chance to deny lingering accusations of terrorism ties.

"I hope to conduct a hearing in Bermuda and have these four indivuals testify," said Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), who chairs a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. He did not set a date.

Field hearings on foreign soil — or sand — are rare.

It would also be uncomfortable for Bermuda and the Obama administration.

Britain has accused its two allies of blindsiding it with a controversial deal that moved hundreds to stage a protest Tuesday outside Bermuda's cabinet building.

Delahunt gave a hint of how a hearing in Bermuda would unfold by assembling a friendly panel on Capitol Hill Tuesday.

COMMENT:  So, let's see:  The released Gitmo detainees are swimming in the Bermuda surf.  And Congressman Delahunt will soon be swimming in that same Bermuda surf, in between these serious "hearings."

Wonder what our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing today?  They're not swimming in the surf.

They used to call trips like these "junkets."  But now, with the Dems in power, the press will call them "commissions of inquiry."

Oh, get the next to the last paragraph:  "Britain has accused its two allies..."  Bermuda is an ally of Great Britain?  It's a British overseas territory.  But geography is such a middle-class, pre-multicultural, imperialist concept.

June 17, 2009