Gitmo: beyond the reach of law?

According to a recent report on Truth-out.org by Jeffrey Kaye (http://truth-out.org/news/item/11640-...), detainees at Gitmo were drugged by the Pentagon staff. The prison which has been open for nearly a decade, has many questioning the validity and legality of site and the torture techniques implemented there. Now it seems the US Department of Defense is attempting to cover up allegations of drugging prisoners at Gitmo. So why does Gitmo remain in open and what really goes on there? Scott Horton, a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, joins us with his take on the legality of Gitmo and how it could be hurting the US in the long run.




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[Algonquin81]

US Government are terrorist creating other terrorists.

[john bridge]

i wouldn't be surprised if Gitmo is a terrorist breading facility...mk-ultra victimisation. seriously how can the usa do this. this is sad....VERY SAD...

[mymojodojo]

Usa = Police state = messed up terrorist state

[Philosopher Rex]

They are preparing people to be patsies or to be new agents for them. They are not attempting to get intelligence from them as they have none and everyone knows it.

[bubbyslife2]

fuck Gitmo

[Biocide201]

psychotic drugs kill people

[makeitallrite11]

Reminds me of Fort Levenworth Kansas....military criminals go in and never come out...that is what faces Pvt Manning,,,,,a cage for the rest of his life. Ive heard that after ten or fifteen years they can not keep the will to live and they dont eat, become totallly insane....thats why military people dont say shit about what goes on...Kinda mafia style justice system wont you say? Been going on for years and now people are shocked...drugging prisoners, nooooo

[HoNgKoNgPh0oEy]

I did a research paper on Project MKULTRA once believing it was myth on only marijuana once I discovered the nature of the true project I was shocked. Rest in Peace Frank Olson a man who's son had to have his body exhumed to know the reason of his true death, drugging by the CIA the very people he worked with. There will hopefully eventually be a uprising otherwise our nation is quickly becoming the dystopias of the past.

[Autojones]

WAIT- AH -MINUTE!!!! ..You mean to tell me the corporate owned fascist criminal U.S. Govt who discards the rights of it's own people and ignores international law and state sovereignty.

And illegally tortures and holds people without charge DOESN'T extend legal rights to those they're persecuting?!

GASP!!!!!!!! WHO-DA-THUNK-IT ?!?!?!?!

[jlarsena]

If people only knew where the scientists from Operation Paperclip are working? Places like Plum Island, FDA, CIA, etc...maybe we would be riotting in the streets too. But this info could be on the news and people would still fall asleep in their Lazy-boys saying what time is Dancing with the Stars? The moral decay of the country is in full bloom now.

[jlarsena]

If anyone wants to know what happens in places like Gitmo? Watch " Standard Operating Procedures", it's about Abu Ghraib, but same things happen. If you want to know what happened in Iraq? Watch "No End In Sight".