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.
Holding these individuals these many years without charging them is a big mess. My overall impression was that “Guantanamo” should never have happened in the first place.
However, proving innocence/guilt is hugely problematical with the detainees that are still there. Some have indicated a desire not to “go back” or a desire to be released at another time of year. Others have the problem that their home countries don’t particularly want them back.
Some 30 who’ve been released have reverted to the killing grounds of terrorism.
How ever you slice up the cake of Guantanamo, opening these individuals up even further to “lawyerly games” and arbitrary rulings of federal judges and habeas corpus under the US Constitution strikes me as (yet another) death knell to intelligent life on the planet.
