re: #275 reine.de.tout

Killgore -you might be absolutely correct that this could have been one way to handle them, but that could never have happened with these detainees. People were too interested in ensuring they were treated humanely and fairly by the big bad US of A.

Take KSM as an example. The world never needed to know we had him. We published pictures of his capture because we were going to take him to GITMO and give him a trial. But suppose it would jeopardize other operations or the evidence against him wouldn’t be allowed in court (military or civilian). We could have picked him up, flown him to a blacksite, interrogated him and have him “disappeared”. Nobody would have ever known. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to learn that’s what happened to Bin laden. His remains may turn up some day and we’d never really know.