Amnesty Should Be Asked A Question.

Today's Washington Times carries a story about Amnesty International's charge that the U.S. runs a gulag. Here's part of it:

"I don't believe [the charges] are irresponsible," said Mr. Schulz, the executive director of Amnesty International U.S.A. "I've told you the ways in which I think that [there are] analogies between the Soviet prison system and the United States."

Pressed to cite concrete evidence that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales are the "architects" of "systematic torture" at the prison, Mr. Schulz could produce none.

I wish a TV interviewer would, in a quiet and matter-of-fact way, ask Mr. Schulz: "Sir, if the U.S. was actually running anything like a gulag system, wouldn't you and the rest of Amnesty's leadership right now be either slave-laboring or decomposing inside it?"