[MRM]

You are have posted here before that you would torture the Gitmo detainees deliberately as punishent or some percieved deterence, even after they had no intelligence value. You have also posted that you would prefer to torture and/or execute all the Gitmo detainees to get at the bad ones, without caring whether some innocent got caught in the crossfire. I disagree and the Constitution is on my side. To misquote justice Renquist, who is not at all a shrinking liberal, surely it isn't too much to ask of the government to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt before jailing a man for the crime.

There have indeed been one or two Gitmo detainees who were released and captured later. Perhaps three, to be fair. As you point out, several hundered have been released. I guess our system of capturing and detaining people in Gitmo isn't so perfect if the president assured us only the "worst of the worst" were in Gitmo and we released so many hundreds of Gitmo detainees. Even under the current system innocent people are being released. So if they are, what does the government have to fear from the warm light of some sunshine on the detentions of the rest? You, to prevent the possibility of some guy coming back to fight the US later (why would a former Gitmo have a grudge against the US after being flown gagged and tagged for 30 hours and then held in solitary for five years, have against the US?) would prefer a secret sytem of detetion that apparently lets out guilty people but detains at least some innocents. Your way is moraly wrong, it is legally wrong by US standards, it is legally wrong by international standards, and it is bad strategy and worse policy. Habeus hearings are the best protection to ensure that the guilty are kept and the innocent are freed.

Next time an American gets captured and treated the way we treated Gitmo detainees, and to our complaints the bad guys point to Gitmo as their precedent, I suggest their blood is on your hands.