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If everyone is so sure this is where we're housing dangerous terrorists, why not charge them with a crime and allow them legal defense? If the evidence is so air-tight, so obvious we should deprive them of basic human rights, why not put them in prison instead of "detaining" them forever?

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I think it's a two-fold problem. One is they may not be so guilty as they claim. The other is they may be so guilty as they claim, but the methods and torture they were put through are not things the government wants discovered by the public during trial.

I wouldn't call it a problem for anyone else but the government officials who should instead be in prison. Perhaps the problem is that these officials aren't in prison..? Seems more like the true problem.

Sadly putting them (the officials) in prison is probably not practical unless there is a revolution in the US. The best we can probably hope for is to give these officials a way to "save face" and shut the thing down while making it look like a victory for them.

The Punisher sounds like a realistic way to rectify these situations. Why do all the shooters go after schools and grocery stores instead of the people responsible for destroying our nation's moral integrity?

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