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Last night, a handful of news organizations released hundreds of pages of documents profiling past and present detainees held at Guant谩namo. Among other things, the documents reveal:

• Evidence the government held detainees not because they were serious threats, .
• The government has imprisoned at Guant谩namo.
• Possession of a was a "sign of al-Qaeda" and a factor in the government鈥檚 decision to detention.
• An al-Jazeera cameraman was held not because he was suspected of terrorist activity, .

Viewed with judges鈥� rulings on legal challenges by detainees, the documents reveal that the analysts sometimes ignored serious flaws in the evidence 鈥� for example, that the information came from other detainees whose mental illness made them unreliable. Some assessments quote witnesses who say they saw a detainee at a camp run by but omit the witnesses鈥� record of falsehood or misidentification. They include detainees鈥� admissions without acknowledging other government documents that show the statements were later withdrawn, often attributed to abusive treatment or torture.

There is a lot of information in these documents that is of great value to the public, but keep in mind that they're all government documents, and only give one side of the story. The best way for the public to learn the government鈥檚 justification for its actions would have been, and still is, for the government to present the evidence in a federal court of law.

Hina Shamsi, Director of the 老澳门开奖结果's National Security Project, said in a statement today:

鈥淭hese documents are remarkable because they show just how questionable the government鈥檚 basis has been for detaining hundreds of people, in some cases indefinitely, at Guant谩namo. The one-sided assessments are rife with uncorroborated evidence, information obtained through torture, speculation, errors and allegations that have been proven false.

鈥淭he documents are the fruit of the original sin by which the rule of law was scrapped when Guantan谩mo detainees were first rounded up. If the government had followed the law, it would have established a meaningful and prompt process to separate the innocent from those who are legally detainable.鈥�

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