Oh right, we are trying to protect the Guatanamo detainees

Life has been exceedingly hectic for me in the past few weeks, culminating in the April 29th National Neighbor to Neighbor Organizing Day, but I couldn't let this piece of crap go unacknowledged.

According to the New York Times, the US government is reluctant to repatriate Guantanamo detainees for fear that they may be tortured and abused in their home countries.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha! Snort! Sniffle! Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!

No, really. But buried in the article is the money quote:

A spokesman for the Saudi Embassy in Washington, Nail al-Jubeir, said he could not comment on specifics of the negotiations, but recalled that the United States had earlier insisted that foreign governments agree to imprison the repatriated Guantánamo detainees, regardless of whether they had committed crimes at home.

"The people coming back from Guantánamo will be questioned and investigated, and if they have blood on their hands, they will face the Saudi justice system," Mr. Jubeir said. But he added, "If we have nothing to hold them on, why hold them?"

So the problem really isn't that the detainees might be tortured. It's that their home governments will not cooperate in the coverup and actually might set the innocent free. And free they will be. Free to talk.

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