Of course most of the Guantanamo inmates were already terrorists and Islamic radicals before they incarceration there, but there were admittedly also many false arrests due to faulty intelligence and opportunism from the Afghan warlords selling us ‘terrorists’ who hadn’t actually done anything. It is these men I am referring to.

The reason we had Guantanamo was to extract intelligence from these men without subjecting them to the US justice system. This had both benefits and negatives, as we protected intelligence from being disclosed in court but the waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques might jeopardize the legal prosecution of many of the inmates in the future as any evidence obtained under duress might not be admissable.