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To: LindyBill who wrote (198576)	3/8/2007 7:19:40 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793968

You are trying to turn the results of a Military Tribunal decision into a court transcript. That is precisely what the tribunal is set up to avoid. These are not American Citizens, they are foreign nationals who have been found to be transnational actors. They are two different critters. One is subject to civilian review, the other isn't. The law is laid down so that even the Surpreme Court can't look at the transcript. You don't like that fact, "tough toenails." We are going to continue to fight this war using those parameters. This all argues for what is legally allowed, which is not the topic. I'm talking about what should be done, not just what is legally acceptable. The current situation may be legal - but I'm arguing my that proposal is better for the US. I've given my reasons why the transcripts which supposedly prove that the detainees are a danger to the US should be made public. What are the reasons you think otherwise, that the US is better off with the public not knowing the reasons for indefinite detention without charge of the Gitmo detainees? How is the US better off with you and me and the world ignorant of the reasons for what seems, on the surface, highly unamerican, unacceptable treatment of foreign nationals? If the detainees are so dangerous, as determined in these interrogations, what's so bad about showing the rest of the world that truth?