Beyond The Law
What a damn, dirty disgrace!
I doubt if any of you will be surprised by this but, not only have we been illegally detaining would-be terrorists in Guantanamo, we’ve also been detaining many with no links to terrorism what’so-ever.
McClatchy reporters have been on the case these past eight months. Their findings are bound to bring about a stinging rebuke to the pro-war Bush administration.
(H/T: Mirth)
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For more than six years, the United States has held hundreds of men at Guantanamo - “the worst of the worst,” in the words of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But the truth was different. McClatchy tracked down 66 men released from Guantanamo in the most systematic survey to date of prisoners held there. Many had no connection to terrorism, but their experience turned them against America.
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