Meet Camp 6
If you’re like me, you might’ve been wondering what the Bush Administration intends to do with all of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay, who have access neither to the civil or military court system. Well, they finally have an answer: lifetime detainment. The Department of Defense has asked for $25M to build a 200-bed prison to house the prisoners indefinitely, regardless of whether they have any recourse to tribunal. One other possibility they are exploring is to return them to their home countries for detainment there in prisons run by their home countries. The best part is this quote:
The prisons would be operated by those countries, but the State Department, where this idea originated, would ask them to abide by recognized human rights standards and would monitor compliance, a senior administration official was quoted as saying.
Human rights standards? What the Hell is going on here? How are we suddenly concerned about the human rights of these people that we have incarcerated for three years with no legal recourse of any kind? This is just one more datapoint in the body of evidence that governments have no sense of irony.