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Update on Guantanamo Releases: Seems former Canadian Guantanamo detainee Abdulrahman Khadr was able to return home to Canada from Yugoslavia this past weekend.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is preparing to release 140 of the 660 Guantanamo detainees, apparently without filing any charges against any of them. Another one G-tmo detainee is supposed to get a lawyer. And the US-born "enemy combatant" in a South Carolina brig is going to get a lawyer....
Has Sec. Rumsfeld got religion? Or have the DOD general counsel's memos finally been read now that some of these cases were headed to the Supreme Court?
It does seem unconscionable that the cases against so many of these 660 Guantanamo detainees are so weak, that the Pentagon now considers them so harmless, that they are letting them go, when until two weeks ago, these prisoners had no prospect of ever facing due process in their lives, and the Pentagon was trying to convince Americans this was necessary for our security! Shocking.
IF 140 human beings who were portrayed to us as Al Qaeda insiders are now apparently free to go, how much reassurance should this give us about the culpability of the other prisoners? And the legal twilight zone into which they have been placed?