It's really party political from Ron Paul, and ironic that it stems from Bush's administration, and Guantanamo. It has so many Yememi prisoners
remaining. maybe this story helps to shed some light,
www.npr.org...
I do think though that the premise from Benjamin Wittes is very revealing when he says this,
"who's going to go back to the fight and who's not, so when you release somebody you assume some risk" It could imply that everyone in Guantanamo
is not a known terrorist, but just a name and that's all that the CIA have. Sounds a bit of fantasy I know, but there is precendence for the same
scenario. It happened here in Northern Ireland, and it was called internment, which was a round-up of known Republicans by the army, but it was a
paper exercise with just a name and maybe an address. So for this purpose a (fictitious) name, Shaun O'Reilly was arrested and interned, often the
internee would be a family member with the same name but not the the person on the paper..a stand in, and the army would not know anything other as
the local military intelligence was poor in the early days. Transfer that sort of thing to somewhere like Yemen with totally foreign names and you can
imagine todays dilemma for a government, any government I suppose. This is not to say that Yemeni prisoners are the same scenario, but who knows?
[edit on 3-2-2010 by smurfy]