@Blickers,
Blickers wrote:If you are so sure that torture was not going on at Guantanamo, please tell us why Bush purposely built the prison outside the fifty states where constitutional guarantees against torture would not apply, (or so Bush thought)?
I'm not aware of a constitutional guarantee against torture.
At the time Guantanamo was created it seemed like neither the Bush Administration nor the Left understood international law. The Left were spouting nonsense about how we couldn't detain an unlawful combatant unless we first convicted them of a crime in civilian court. Much of the effort to keep them out of legal clutches was a reaction to these bogus pronunciations from the Left.
The actual torture was carried out by the CIA in abandoned Warsaw Pact airbases within the EU.
Blickers wrote:At any rate, under Obama three quarters of the prisoners were released. So if he was unsuccessful in closing it, he hugely reduced the number of prisoners subjected to it.
Bush as well released a substantial number of detainees that were deemed low risk.
