Ethics

National Review on the Gitmo Release

By Ed Brayton

Balko points to this post at NRO by Andrew McCarthy about the Bush-appointed judge ordering the release of 5 Algerians from Gitmo because there was no evidence to justify their detention and this curious statement:

It seems pretty clear that the Bush administration did not help matters here. Nearly seven years ago, the President publicly claimed the Algerians were planning a bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo. Last month, however, the Justice Department suddenly informed the Court that it was no longer relying on that information. We've seen this sort of thing happen too many times over the last seven years, and the effect can only be to reduce the confidence of the court and the public that the government is in command of the relevant facts and can be trusted to make thoughtful decisions.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).