@Fatal Freedoms,
Fatal_Freedoms;63612 wrote:Yup closing down gitmo, about time.
That place has been a stain on our international reputation for quite some time.
Wanna know what amazes me?
washingtonpost.com
Vandeveld said in a phone interview that the "complete lack of organization" has affected nearly all cases at Guantanamo Bay. The evidence is often so disorganized, he said, "it was like a stash of documents found in a village in a raid and just put on a plane to the U.S. Not even rudimentary organization by date or name."
Vandeveld was assigned to the military prosecutor's office at Guantanamo Bay in May 2007, shortly before Jawad was charged. Vandeveld, who as a civilian serves as a senior deputy attorney general in Pennsylvania, said he was shocked by the "state of disarray" as he began to gather material for Jawad's case file.
He said the evidence was scattered throughout databases, in desk drawers, in vaguely labeled containers or "simply piled on the tops of desks" of departed prosecutors.
"I further discovered that most physical evidence that had been collected had either disappeared" or had been stored in unknown locations, he said.
Looking at this, it's now apparent that fair trials were never on the table. Nor was any chance of the innocents being released. You can't even call this incompetence, that implies they did this out of stupidity. This is downright
wrong.