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America needs guantanamo because guantanamo can do something for us that no other place and no other prison or court system could do. that hypothesis has become muddled at best over the years and it's now the most muddled it's ever been, after a cache of 700 classified documents from the bush era was released and posted online last night. the documents are assessments of guantanamo prisoners made between 2002 and 2009. these assessments look at prisoner's health, whether or not these prisoners still pose a danger to the united states, whether or not they have any value as an intelligence asset...

Value as an intelligence asset. what's mainly revealed by these new documents is just how imprecise and chaotic the entire detention and trial system was and has been over time. just taking one case as an example. one case, a prisoner originally from georgia was deemed to be high risk. his file said he was likely to be a threat to the united states. his prison file recommended that he remain incarcerated at the prison, that the high risk to america who is still a good source of intelligence, that that guy should be kept in prison. that guy was released three months after the assessment was mad...

Open. advocates for guantanamo as a prison for suspected terrorists have said from the beginning that america needs guantanamo. america needs guantanamo because guantanamo can do something for us that no other place and no other prison or court system could do. that hypothesis has become muddled at best over the year and it's now the most muddled it's ever been, after a cache of 700 classified documents from the bush era was released and posted online last night. the documents are assessments of guantanamo prisoners made between 2002 and 2009. these assessments look at prisoner's health, wheth...

Proceeded under military procedures, he would have had a lawyer who would have been telling him if not the miranda rights, not to talk. >> well, you've asked me about six different questions in repeating the allegations that the white house has made. look, the military detainee and trial system provides much more flexibility and would have allowed him to be questioned ç without a lawyer telling him what to reveal and what to conceal. >> wrong. wrong. andrea mitchell just said that was wrong, just ignoring all the evidence of your complete and total wrongness does not make you less wrong! but...

Six different questions in repeating the allegations that the white house has made. look, the military detainee and trial system provides much more flexibility and would have allowed him to be questioned without a lawyer telling him what to reveal and what to conceal. >> wrong. wrong. andrea mitchell just said that was wrong, just ignoring all the evidence of your complete and total wrongness does not make you less wrong! but senator collins, for all of her astounding wrongness on this issue, is not the only republican tripping and falling into the wrong in this political battle over the attem...