On what authority

GOP lawmakers refused access to DC Dungeon

The President can order that the jails be off-limits to Congress. Or any member(s). The President also can rescind that order. Do you think anybody in the Pravda media will have the guts or integrity to ask why members of Congress are barred from visiting political prisoners at this medieval dungeon? We have regressed at least two centuries in less than a year.

I'll call it the "Dungeon", and it may seem like hyperbole, but what about this? My usage of the language may be far more apt than even I realized.

We cannot hear anything from the prisoners about how they are treated. We cannot see if they have been beaten up or tortured in any way. How can we then know for certain if they are being properly treated? No matter how great the crime they are accused of may be, they still have some fundamental rights. How else are the people going to know if these rights are being violated or not? Has the Bill of Rights been somehow repealed? By who? On what authority?