The administrative team has cleared 75 of the remaining 223 prisoners in Guantanamo for release.
It’s nice to see this train wreck winding down. Of course, I’m assuming two things:
- the team is doing a good job of determining whether the detainee could actually be charged
- we haven’t turned the detainees into terrorists by treating them like an evil empire
The first is a matter of doing due diligence. (Made more difficult, of course, by trying to figure things out after holding them without charge for as much 8 years, leaving any evidence stale.)
The second is just the price we pay for playing word games with POW versus criminal while ignoring the intent of the law regarding either.
