Not a good week for the Obama administration!

[Duchess]

If the government is so certain they are terrorists why haven't they been charged with that?

No one with any authority likes to talk about Gitmo, it's a major fuckup. Some of the people locked up didn't feel anything, one way or another, about America but they sure as hell hate us now. We are hated worldwide & I don't hold that against any of them, I'd hate us too, no one likes a bully.

The dossiers also show the seat-of-the-pants intelligence gathering in war zones that led to the incarcerations of innocent men for years in cases of mistaken identity or simple misfortune. In May 2003, for example, Afghan forces captured Prisoner 1051, an Afghan named Sharbat, near the scene of a roadside bomb explosion, the documents show. He denied any involvement, saying he was a shepherd. Guantánamo debriefers and analysts agreed, citing his consistent story, his knowledge of herding animals and his ignorance of “simple military and political concepts,” according to his assessment. Yet a military tribunal declared him an “enemy combatant” anyway, and he was not sent home until 2006.

This is old news but it's still going on.

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