**Gasp** Pentagon worried that Gitmo detainees might be tortured if allowed to return home.

[Contrary1]

Gitmo’s days numbered, tough choices ahead

"GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks — and it may soon become one again.

The days of this U.S. offshore prison are numbered. The Bush administration's main rationale for holding terrorism suspects without trial vanished when the Supreme Court ruled on June 12 that they have certain legal rights. John McCain and Barack Obama have both called for the detention center to be shut.

But whoever becomes the new president will have to figure out what to do with those left at Guantanamo — roughly 270 at present.

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The Pentagon now plans to try about 80 prisoners at military commissions, but another 130 are considered too dangerous to let go and won't be prosecuted. About 60 are slated for transfer from Guantanamo, but the Pentagon says they can't go home because their governments won't accept them, might release them and create a security risk for the U.S., or might even torture them..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25429778/

[DS1]

1. We're torturing them over here, so they don't have to torture them over there

:crazy:

[readmoreoften]

4. you hit that on the head

[gateley]

2. They couldn't have made that statement with a straight face! nt

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

3. How do "considered too dangerous to let go" and "won't be prosecuted" apply to the same people?

Oh yeah, I forgot, it's the year 1214 again. :eyes: