State Department’s Sean McCormack Defends Bush Administration’s Human Rights Record

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack extolled the human rights record of the Bush administration at a press briefing yesterday. McCormack’s statement came in response to a question about whether the United States would press Libya to release Fathi al-Jahmi, who has been imprisoned for four years without charges and whose health is so poor he could die if he continues to go without medical treatment [emphasis in original]: