Whenever I write about the mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere, I get hate mail from people who insist that those prisoners are "the worst of the worst" and that they deserve the treatment they get. These critics will not accept that a large number of detainees are actually not guilty of terrorism but have been falsely imprisoned.
Will they change their tune with today's big news? (Unfortunately, they probably will not.)
From the Christian Science Monitor:
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The same day that the Department of Defense announced that it was going to file charges against more of the detainees being held at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, including the death penalty in some cases, it also quietly announced that it was going to release 141 of the prisoners.
The Los Angeles Times said the US plans to release about one-third of the men being held at the prison because they pose no threat to the United States.
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