Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray
Situation Complicates Prison's Closure
By Karen DeYoung and Peter Finn
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, January 25, 2009
President Obama's plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials -- barred until the inauguration from examining classified material on the detainees -- discovered that there were no comprehensive case files on many of them.
Now, I'm not surprised that W's minions maintained "no comprehensive case files" on many Gitmo detainees - this seems in keeping with the overall incompetence & hubris of W's Administration.
What I don't understand is why this "complicates Prison's Closure", or why this is a "set back" to Obama's intention to close Gitmo.
If the files can't be found, there is very clearly no rationale for detaining those so-called 'worst of the worst'.
W screwed up. Big surprise.
Why should 'innocent-until-proven-guilty' folks have to pay for his incompetence???...
(... and, based on what we've learned of evidence that HAS been found, there's every reason to believe that the stuff that's missing is exculpatory!)
W's misguided fanatacism has created far more terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the rest of the Muslim world than the few hundred poor souls now in Gitmo.
Let 'em go.
It really is time to STOP THE MADNESS!!!
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Check out the little debate I'm having at my Captain's Log blog with a law student over this issue. Put in your two cents if you want.
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