On Face the Nation, Schieffer claimed vaguely defined detainee agreement "shows how we do things in a democracy -- out in the open"; also left unchallenged several McCain falsehoods

SUMMARY: Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer baselessly asserted that the September 22 deal struck by Republican senators and President Bush on the detention, interrogation, and trial of detainees "shows how we do things in a democracy -- out in the open, and in accordance with the law, even when dealing with the worst of the worst." In fact, the details of the agreement are largely unknown. Schieffer also allowed Sen. John McCain to suggest that Democrats are the reason, in Schieffer's words, that Congress "can't seem to get anything done," even though Republicans control both houses of Congress and the presidency.

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