re: #133 Killgore Trout

It’s possible but I think Bush painted himself into a corner with Gitmo. It was a nice experiment in transparency but there were too many legal issues involved. We simply couldn’t hold people there forever and making a legal case against them was too problematic. It was a nice experiment but they should have been put in secret black sites where they could be held indefinitely without public scrutiny.

I can’t believe you said that. I really can’t believe you said that.

With all of the “transparency” of Gitmo, we have people upset and ranting over the plight of the detainees, being held for long stretches of time without being charged, being tortured … can you imagine, could you just imagine, the hullaballoo if they had been held somewhere in secrecy with no public scrutiny? Good gosh …

I can’t remember the name of the program, but didn’t we allow some of these detainees to be held and/or questioned by other countries? Lots of pointing of fingers and shrieking about that, wasn’t there?

And even that was more open that secret locations away from public scrutiny.