Sunday's Boston Globe has another tale of the shame we should feel about what is going on relative to Guantanamo. Despite the Supreme Court ruling that some of the detainees were entitled to at least a hearing in American courts, the government seems to have gone out of its way to deny these people their court-given rights.
The detainees claimed that there were witnesses who could help them prove their innocence. The government was unable to find a single witness; yet the Globe found three, one of whom has been at the National Defense University since 2004, in three days. They also found a witness in Afghanistan; he happened to be the Minister of Energy; another was a prisoner in US custody in Afghanistan.
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