Alan
2008-06-23 05:58:28
I have yet to hear a conservative acknowledge the most important point in all this. This ruling is a direct result of the hard line the military and the bush administration took on Guantanamo. If they had simply put some mechanism, any mechanism, in place by which an innocent detainee would be found and released, this would not have happened. The idea of indefinite detention without prosecution or even some evaluation of guilt is the definition of un-American. Yes, national security has been weakened, but this could have been avoided if the people behind the Guantanamo detention system had played by the rules.
