Rummy Tortures MSM Editorialists

You gotta like the way Donald Rumsfield doesn't pull his punches. Here's what he had to say today about MSM coverage of Abu Ghraib and other instances where we've made those who would like to murder our children a little uncomfortable:

Free societies depend on oversight, and they welcome informed criticism, particularly on human rights issues. But those who make such outlandish charges lose any claim to objectivity or seriousness. The Washington Post, to its credit, rejected the comparison between Guantanamo and a gulag in a recent editorial.

Unfortunately, efforts to bring the detainee issue into proper context have been somewhat rare. Two of the country's largest newspapers, for example, have devoted more than 80 editorials, combined, since March of 2004 to Abu Ghraib and detainee issues, often repeating the same erroneous assertions and recycling the same stories. By comparison, precious little has been written about -- by those editorial boards about the beheading of innocent civilians by terrorists, the thousands of bodies found in mass graves in Iraq, the allegations of rape of women and girls by U.N. workers in the Congo.

Yes, there have been instances where detainees have been mistreated while in U.S. custody, sometimes grievously.

But consider these facts. To date, there have been approximately 370 criminal investigations into the charges of misconduct involving detainees. Out of 68,000 detainees that have been in U.S. custody over the period since September 11th. And of some 525,000 service members, men and women of the various services who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in Guantanamo Bay, less than one-tenth of 1 percent have been found to have committed illegal acts against detainees.

Full briefing transcript here. H/T Real Clear Politics