Move over Guantanamo Bay! Step aside Abu Ghraib! The worst U.S. run prison is in Bagram, Afghanistan!

While an international debate rages over the future of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the military has quietly expanded another, less-visible prison in Afghanistan, where it now holds some 500 terror suspects in more primitive conditions, indefinitely and without charges.

While Guantánamo offers carefully scripted tours for members of Congress and journalists, Bagram has operated in rigorous secrecy since it opened in 2002. It bars outside visitors except for the International Red Cross and refuses to make public the names of those held there. The prison may not be photographed, even from a distance.

From the accounts of former detainees, military officials and soldiers who served there, a picture emerges of a place that is in many ways rougher and more bleak than its counterpart in Cuba. Men are held by the dozen in large wire cages, the detainees and military sources said, sleeping on the floor on foam mats and, until about a year ago, often using plastic buckets for latrines. Before recent renovations, they rarely saw daylight except for brief visits to a small exercise yard.

So does this administration still claim that Abu Ghraib was an aberration? Just a few out of control soldiers? Or is it time for them to admit that we have, as a matter of policy, decided to house suspected terrorists in inhumane conditions without benefit of any legal recourse for an undetermined amount of time? And how does this promote the idea that we value freedom above all else?

There is literally so much hypocrisy within this government that it is almost like a second religion to them. I cannot fathom how, or why, anybody would ever believe a thing they say about anything. Anything!