==Controversy==
Senator Durbin made a statement In 2005 morally equating U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (zero killed, a few died of suicide) with prisoner treatment by Pol Pot (200,000 killed, 1,500,000 died). He later apologized for his comments.<ref>[httphttps://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160275,00.html Durbin Apologizes for Nazi, Gulag, Pol Pot Remarks], Sharon Kehnemui Liss, ''[[Fox News Channel|Fox News]]'', June 22, 2005</ref>
<blockquote>"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings."</blockquote>