Cuba Detains US Contractor
And perhaps people will be more interested as folks will not assume that Pres. Obama sent him over there to spy and wreak havoc.
HAVANA — A United States government contract worker, who was distributing cellphones, laptops and other communications equipment in Cuba on behalf of the Obama administration, has been detained by the authorities here, American officials said Friday.
The officials said the contractor, who works for a company based in the Washington suburbs, was detained Dec. 5. They said the United States Interests Section in Havana was awaiting Cuba’s response to a request for consular access to the man, who was not identified.
The detention and the mysterious circumstances surrounding it threaten to reignite tensions between the countries at a time when both had promised to open new channels of engagement. American officials said they were encouraged that the Cubans had not publicized the detention, and they said they were hopeful that he might be quietly released.
If this would have happened under Pres. Bush everyone on the left would have assumed it justified.
I wonder what the Left thinks about it now — seriously, or would you have thought no differently?
The one big benefit of having Obama in office is that we can perhaps convince some people out there that these regimes really are as repressive and as large of a threat as they really are.