What The U.S. Just Said About Cuban Prisoners Is Utterly Disgusting

On Monday, deputy national security advisor and amateur foreign policy enthusiast Ben Rhodes decided to take a page straight out of the playbook “Latin American Dictatorship For Dummies,” providing moral cover to Cuba’s extrajudicial detainment programs. Rather than outright condemning the regime’s obstructionism about its political prisoners, Rhodes carefully explained the Castro calculus. “It’s their belief that they are not political prisoners, that they are in prison for various crimes and offenses against Cuban law,” he told CNN’s Jim Acosta.