![]() ![]() refuses to admit them, and no other country has issued an invitation. They are all cleared for release, but the U.S. Which makes all 30 prisoners, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, as innocent as a newborn child as far as the law is concerned.įor whatever it’s worth, the Pentagon itself says it has no evidence that half of these people committed a crime. It is a bedrock principle of American jurisprudence that we are all, citizens and non-citizens alike, presumed innocent until proven guilty. None of them has ever been charged in a court of law. Now in its third decade of operation under four presidents, Gitmo still houses 30 men. ![]() The Guantanamo Bay concentration camp epitomizes this phenomenon. A country that loudly and repeatedly expresses what it purports to be its principles, yet cavalierly ignores them on a whim, rightly earns the contempt of its own citizens and those of other nations, especially when the hypocritical government of that nation criticizes others for failing to adhere to their pompously proclaimed rules-based international order. ![]()
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