This is terrible.

It horrifies me.

It started with W’s administration.

The Guantánamo Bay detainees are being held indefinitely, without trial, as “prisoners of war.”

The war? The so-called War on Terror.

Note that (as indicated by the Times story) Donald Trump “has proposed reviving and expanding such techniques.”

New York Times reporter Charlie Savage is very good.

— Roger W. Smith

    June 16, 2016