Elijah Cummings: “I tell you, when I think about any person, sometimes I think that we need to pause and try to put ourselves in the…”

“I tell you, when I think about any person, sometimes I think that we need to pause and try to put ourselves in the position of people who may be suffering through something, and I think if we imagine our son or imagine our father or imagine our daughter being dragged around on a leash like a dog, I think it would cause you to say, wait a minute, hold it. I want to get to the very bottom of this. There have been diaries, at least one diary I know of, that has been featured in the Baltimore Sun, in my newspaper, as to how a gentleman in the military described and talked about how deep this thing went. In other words, it was not a little handful of people. They are talking about commands coming from people beyond the prison cells.”