Disgusting Crimes Of The Worst Kind: ACLU Crunches Guantanamo Numbers

[kpete]

92% of the detainees were never al-Qaeda fighters. 86% were turned over to coalition forces for a bounty. Only 5% were captured by U.S. soldiers.

Number of children detained at Gitmo: 21 (the youngest was 13.)
The oldest detainee was 98.

More than 200 FBI agents reported abusive treatment of detainees

At least 16 were tortured in overseas secret prisons before getting to Gitmo

8 detainees have died. 6 were suicides, including a detainee who arrived at Gitmo at age 16 and killed himself at age 21.




http://www.aclu.org/national-security/guantanamo-numbers

There are 171 detainees still at Guantanamo. 89 have been cleared for release. The amount it costs per year to keep the 89 detained at Gitmo: $70 million.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2012/1/9/212533/4247

http://www.aclu.org/national-security/guantanamo-numbers

[xchrom]

1. Du rec. Nt

[Voice for Peace]

2. & kick nt

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. Not one war criminal prosecuted! Not even the one who went on TV and admitted participating in the

approval of torture by waterboarding.

No one - absolutely no one - is being held accoutable for the war crimes.

[gratuitous]

8. The United States is certainly not holding them accountable

But that doesn't mean others around the world aren't laying plans to exact justice for these crimes against humanity. My fervent hope is that those doing so are respectful of the rule of law in ways our country isn't, and proceeds with regular rules of criminal procedure in an attempt to convict those guilty. However, I fear that that won't be the case, and that our citizens will be subject to blanket reprisals by righteously angry survivors or the friends and families of our victims. Reprisals that will depend less on actual guilt or innocence, and more on the ability to strike a person.

But none of us mind getting injured or killed as penance for our nation's disgrace, right? We're all just fightin' for freedom! And if some folks make a gazillion dollars off of war and torture while others get killed in reprisal, well, only a dirty fucking hippie would object to that.

[Brickbat]

4. K&R

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. We are war criminals.

Plain and simple. We deserve every bit of karma coming our way for this obscenity.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

10. "We"? The real guilt of the actual war criminals should not be diluted by assigning it among

the powerless 99%.

If you are going to assign the guilt of the actual war criminals to all Americans, then why not assign it to the world at large? That way, no one can ever be held responsible or even be shamed into feeling guilty.

[TheKentuckian]

12. The 1% get alot of cover from the 99 on this deal and even those that don't give cover

fail to have consequences which grants the fog of plausible denial which perpetuates the illusion that the 99 are represented.

[raouldukelives]

6. Sickening

All under the guise of freedom. All for the sake of money.

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[bullwinkle428]

9. This really is a stain on the soul of this country. Doesn't look like it's going away any

time soon, either.

[cthulu2016]

11. K&R

[Festivito]

13. Another stat: how many tapes were destroyed - evidence destroyed -

by scared government officials.

[G_j]

14. it's been ten years now

any hint of closure...?

[T S Justly]

15. There is someone who could end it the way it began - with the stroke of a pen. K&R (nt)