Faces and Names
Jan 24th, 2006 at 9:26 am by Susie
NEW YORK — A federal judge ruled Monday that the Defense Department must release the identities of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees to The Associated Press.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff told the government to provide the information in the form of unredacted copies of transcripts and documents related to 558 military hearings in which detainees were permitted to challenge their incarcerations.
Most of the hundreds of prisoners at the U.S. prison in Cuba have been held since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks without being charged or publicly identified, which has troubled human rights groups.
Yeah, it’s not as if it’s been bothering anyone else - anyone who counts, I mean. All good Americans (the ones who aren’t traitors - and I think you all know who you are) think anything our Fearless Leaders does is okay, even if he smashes the head of a kitten with a hammer.
There are people who were taken prisoner in their own country for fighting to save their government against a civil war and an invasion by a foreign power.
Or, if they were not fighting, they were just minding their own business and were arrested because they had the wrong politics.
How can anybody figure that they are criminals?
Even if they /are/ terrorists, then we need to try them and find them guilty already, not just hold them indefinitely without even having been charged.