Guantánamo: "When you can’t win a bet with loaded dice, something is wrong with the game"

yeah, i think that's safe to say...

Gitmo: A National Disgrace

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It is time to get rid of it.

according to the nyt, the problems are...

• [T]he special detention system is ... fundamentally corrupt.

• The tribunals are, in fact, kangaroo courts that give the inmates no chance to defend themselves, allow evidence that was obtained through torture and can be repeated until one produces the answer the Pentagon wants.

• The Guantánamo camp was ... built on a lie — that the hundreds of detainees at Gitmo are all dangerous terrorists.

• Guantánamo ... was organized around a fiction — that Mr. Bush had the power to create this rogue system in the first place.

and the solutions are both simple and in keeping with the fundamental, historical principles of the u.s. justice system...

• Congress needs to restore the right of the inmates of Guantánamo Bay to challenge their detentions.

• Those who are truly illegal combatants would be sent to military or civilian jails in the United States, to be tried under time-tested American rules of justice, or sent to an international tribunal. Some would be returned to their native lands for trial, if warranted. The rest would be set free, as they should have been long ago.

• Congress should repeal the Military Commissions Act and start anew on a just system for determining whether prisoners are unlawful combatants. Among other things, evidence obtained through coercion and torture should be banned.

• Congress should shut down Guantánamo Bay.

our national self-respect has suffered tremendously under the lawless regime of george w. bush... not the least of that has been the condoning of such outrageous policies as torture enhanced interrogation techniques, secret detention in cia "black sites," extraordinary rendition, and the denial of access to the established judicial process in a timely manner, substituting instead what the nyt rightly calls kangaroo courts... it's not just time to get rid of it... it's WAY PAST time...

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