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Today, a federal court ruled that for 5 of these men, there is no credible evidence that they did anything wrong, and if most of our political class -- which supported the Military Commissions Act-- had its way, they wouldn't have even had this hearing at all.
Yes, the nattering class didn't want these prisoners to have a trial, but we can't be content once Guantanamo is closed to think that the problem has been solved. As ondelette and others have pointed out, the US (and "allies" under our direction) have thousands more prisoners being held under the same, or even worse, conditions around the world.
Guantanamo is the tip of the iceberg and our country will not have renounced its evil ways until all detainees at all of these sites have had proper hearings to determine whether sufficient grounds exist for their detention and the conditions for all held have been brought into agreement with international law.
