Amnesty Incompetent

As you've probably heard, Amnesty International held a presser the other day and proceeded to declare our prison at Gitmo a modern day gulag, a statement which was dismissed as "absurd" by President Bush. AI purports to be an organization that does not align itself with any particular party, but that may not necessarily be true, as James Taranto points out in Best of the Web Today:

The Washington Times, meanwhile, reports that top Amnesty officials donated money to John Kerry's* presidential campaign:

Federal Election Commission records show that William F. Schulz, executive director of Amnesty USA, contributed $2,000 to Mr. Kerry's campaign last year. Mr. Schulz also has contributed $1,000 to the 2006 campaign of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.

Also, Joe W. "Chip" Pitts III, board chairman of Amnesty International USA, gave the maximum $2,000 allowed by federal law to John Kerry for President. . . .

Amnesty International's Web site states it is "independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. It does not support or oppose any government."

It ought to be cause for pause to anyone who supported Kerry that officials of a group with such an animus toward America did as well.