Consider the possibility that the US has absolutely nobody in any of its super secret gulag archipelagos who could be tried and convicted in open court. Nobody. Consider that there is probably nobody who could be put on trial in a US military tribunal that followed the UCMJ. Consider what the US has are people who were rounded up or turned in with nothing but a scribbled field report and a few interrogation summaries. Consider they are being held in secret not because they are still spilling their guts on all the evil they've done, but simply because they can't be charged with anything that will stick. ......................................
Evidence to support this idea can be gathered from Doug's interview with Moazzam Begg, author of "Enemy Combatant" -
Link to hi-fi podcast feed: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php>
(Interview with Begg begins at approximately 31:33)
Excerpts from Begg's book:
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,1717386,00.html>
The obligatory Wikipedia entry: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moazzam_Begg>
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Begg was initially imprisoned at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Later, he was transferred to Guantanamo where he spent two years - mostly in solitary confinement, I believe.
Aside from its domestic (U.S.) uses as a live-fire exercise of Hollywood nurtured concepts of action - proof that Washington is protecting American citizens - aimless cruelty seems to be the primary purpose of the US' gulag system.
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How should you approach life? Like a samurai, ready for death at any time.
Pater Monroe, 1978 ...................... http://monroelab.net/blog/