<p>Very troubling at first read. I’ll dig a bit and see what else may be found.</p>
<p>You may also want to read this article:
China Inspired Interrogations at Guant</p>
<p>Most likely most GITMO detainees are unlawful combatants. Not all are members of Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>^^. True. But which ones? And should not innocent people not be subjected to torture, especially of the kind that was designed to elicit false confessions? Or detained for 6-7 years? We know that innocent people do get wrongfully sentenced and held some for decades. But not as a matter of policy.
That is why habeas corpus is so important.</p>
<p>Habeas corpus IS important - in a court of law. Evidentiary rules are also important in the same venue. But there is a reason why the Judicial Branch does not run the military or conduct wartime operations. The U.S. is indeed at war, and actively afield in its execution.</p>
<p>Generally prisoners of war are released upon the cessation of hostilities. Hostilities have not stopped to date.</p>
<p>Further, we should note that “Club Gitmo” (an island escape from the stress of Jihad, according to Rush Limbaugh ;)) houses the worst of the worst of the unlawful combatants seized by the military. Few or none are there by accident and those who were scooped up by accident have been mostly repatriated to the nations of their birth - if those countries will accept them.</p>
<p>We should also note that some of these fine fellows who have been repatriated have already returned to the battle and killed others.</p>
<p>The court system will now apply the law enforcement rules to military operations and we may well see some of these murderers released into the United States out of a misplaced zeal to appease judicial concepts like habeas corpus. Yale University had one Taliban student…perhaps a couple hundred more could enroll as well? New Haven I’m sure would appreciate the increased variety of murder in their midst. Perhaps fair-haired American co-eds would find it amusing to be slapped and beaten for violating Islamic law around these gents.</p>
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<p>How do we know this? Who says so? How much reliance should we put in this claim?
To quote the judge in the Parhat case:</p>
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<p>This is very circular arguing. We may or we may not see any of the murderers released. But we KNOW that many innocents were at Gitmo. Some have been released without fanfare (and without trial) but how more are there? Will we ever know? Should they be treated as casualties of war in what is called the war of terror (will it last as long as or longer than the One Hundred Year War?) like civilians killed by friendly fire? Or do we think that habeas corpus matters? And to whom and for whom?</p>
<p>Were at Gitmo…that’s an important perspective. The military wants to get rid of unnecessary prisoners as soon as they can. The worst of the worst remain, unclaimed by neither church nor state.</p>
<p>The government’s position in this frankly sucks. This type of endless war is awful and offends our sense of fair play and clean outcomes. There will be no clean outcome in this war. I hate it, but having it here, in the U.S. is worse. Many more innocents will die before it is over. What a waste.</p>
<p>May G*d forgive us all.</p>
<p>Well, this poor Uighur sucker Parhat is still there. he used to hate the PRC. Now he probably hates the US! But hey, the US has been using interrogation techniques developed int he PRC!
I have no confidence that those who are now at Gitmo are “the worst of the worst.” Where is the evidence? As the judge said, just because the government says it three times does not make it true. So, I’d like other sources for such a statement.</p>
<p>I agree with the rest of your post.</p>