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POPSThe Gitmo no one talks about What do we know about who the detainees are and why they were sent to Bagram? We know that these are people who have been captured by the U.S. military during the war in Afghanistan or during the broader war on terror. The people who have been sent there recently were largely picked up during so-called night raids. The military will go into villages where they believe there are Taliban and raid a house. They take all the men out, and put the women and children in a separate area. If the soldiers find weapons when they search the house, the men are likely to be detained, and they may end up being sent from the village to Bagram. Some of those people end up being held at Bagram for years.
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POPSFrom Guantanamo to Abbottabad 
. . . had been running things immediately following 9/11. After their "arrest," we would have read KSM and al-Libi their Miranda rights, provided them legal counsel, sent them to the U.S. for detention, and granted them all the rights provided a U.S. citizen in criminal proceedings. If this had happened, the CIA could not have built the intelligence mosaic that pinpointed bin Laden's location. Without the intelligence produced by Bush policies, the SEAL helicopters would be idling their engines at their Afghanistan base even now. In the war on terror, it is easy to pull the trigger—it is hard to figure out where to aim. Over the past two years, congressional pressure and the demands of the real world have forced Mr. Obama to give up his law-enforcement approach to terrorism. Thanks to congressional funding riders, Gitmo remains open and terrorist detainees there cannot be brought to the United States. As Sunday's operation put so vividly on display, Mr. Obama would . . .
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POPSDocuments reveals new info on Gitmo detainees Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the United States believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files released Sunday by several American and European newspapers. The U.S. government criticized the publication as "unfortunate."
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POPSThe "Bush-tortured" excuse for indefinite detention Put another way, with regard to those individuals whom Obama has ordered imprisoned without trials based on the notion that they cannot be prosecuted but are too dangerous to release, only 1 of 2 possibilities exist; either: (1) there is substantial evidence that they're guilty independent of the torture-obtained evidence, in which case they can be prosecuted using that legitimately obtained evidence, or, (2) the only real evidence against them is evidence obtained by torture, which means that it's unreliable, which means that no decent person should be assuming they're guilty -- or deserving of imprisonment -- based on such evidence.
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