A group of 17 Chinese people, members of a group called Uighurs, are being held in Guantanamo.

Hassan left for Kyrgyzstan, then traveled to Afghanistan in 2000 to live in a Uighur camp, which was destroyed in the U.S. bombing campaign. He then fled to Pakistan to seek sanctuary. After 9-11, he was captured along with 17 other Uighurs. One of them, Abu Bakkar Qassim, who was later released to Albania, wrote they'd been sold by Pakistani bounty hunters to the U.S. military "like animals for $5,000 a head." By February 2002, Hassan was at Guantanamo.

They are there because we bought them from a dealer who specializes in terrorists...

A declassified FBI report indicates international politics was a factor in their fate. The report said initially American officials considered handing the Uighurs back to the Chinese, in return for their support in the war on terror. But that didn't happen. In August 2002, the U.S. listed a little-known group, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, as a terrorist organization. Many analysts believe it was a quid-pro-quo move to gain Chinese support.

...Then we used them as pawns to leverage our good friends in the Democratic Republic of China...

In September 2002, a visiting Chinese delegation was allowed to interrogate the Uighurs in Guantanamo Bay. One detainee said he was forcibly interrogated, threatened and deprived of sleep and food by the Chinese.

...Who we then allowed to stop by and torture...

Two and a half years after arriving at Guantanamo, a Combatant Status Review Tribunal, or CSRT panel, found Hassan not to be an enemy combatant. So he was judged not to be affiliated with al-Qaida, or a threat to the U.S.

A few months later that decision was reversed. Hassan's lawyer said a declassified Pentagon memo explained the decision this way, "Inconsistencies will not shed a favorable light on the CSRT process, or the work done by OARDEC."

Attorney Clarke interprets the memo to mean, "It's inconsistent so we have to flip him back. It won't shed a good light on the process if we don't flip him back to be an enemy combatant."

...But don't worry. Ours is a clear-eyed view of the world, one guided by a system of laws. We know what we're doing...

Court filings show after that Hassan spent some time in Camp Six, a maximum prison. He was in solitary confinement 22 hours a day, he never saw direct sunlight, his two hours of recreational time were spent in a cage — on alternating days, in the middle of the night; and he was punished for trying to touch or greet other detainees.

...When it comes to incarceration.

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USA. USA.

Dontcha know, not all hot dogs are made with pork...

They will probably serve Hebrew Nationals.

...I mean the weiners, not the citizens of Israel.

I thought it was a klezmer group.

But..but..but we paid good American money for these guys. Palau should be paying us.

That's gotta hurt.

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The tenor of the questions and answers made it seem like the outcome was going to be the opposite. Glad it turned out this way, though.

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With all the republicans left in this country. Are they down to double digits yet?

He must be one of them freakin' smarty pants elitist Mensa types.

In opposite world

Anyone else notice that although men only make up roughly half the population, they make up 90% (17 of 19) of the committee.

I love it when Republicans say shit like this.

We got prisoners, and detainees, and terrorists, and Task Forces, and now we got Glenn involved doing all this fancy analysis in these long essays. I am reminded of Breaker Morant:

"Shoot straight you bastards - Don't make a mess of it."

We don't have to listen to you any more.

Especially now that we've rigged the system to guarantee conviction. Next time some muslim-looking dude asks to bum a cig, think twice! You might be providing material support for terrorism.

HS dropout does not equal poor and working class.

Also, I wouldn't take anything in that chart seriously - It is a poorly assembled mishmash of data, that is further compromised by poor analysis by its author.

Wanna bet? She is NEVER going to go away.

It's an ideas problem.

The republicans don't have any that people like.

Maybe if they stopped looking at voters like commodities...

Nah.

They're still pallin' around with terrorists.

How could Obama let this come to pass without killing a couple thousand civilians? It's un-American.

On or about September 15 2012, please get caught blowing Glen Beck.

Are you suggesting that these protesters are actually liberals who are showing up and illustrating just how stupid the complaints of the conservatives are?

It does make me wonder just what it would take to make the people who are being swayed by these idiots realize just how unhinged these "protesters" are.

Heal thyselves, physicians.

All bloggers are liberal. They're part of the liberal media. And that's also redundant. These bloggers, they're like commies. They infiltrate the masses, with their sly and wicked ways. They tell the people that they need stuff like health care and civil rights and gay people. Now we have a bunch of liberal voters. Now that's also redundant, because of the commies. So the bloggers and the media and the voters are against us.

And to top it all off, we got a liberal president. Now, it would be unamerican of me to say anything critical about this whitey-hating, dictator-appeasing, jew-bashing, commie-loving, African half-breed, but let me just ask this: Is he still beating his wife?