The Guardian has a devastating article by David Rose recounting one British prisoner’s ordeal in Guantanamo.

The fifth paragraph addresses the reliability of the account, acknowledging that there’s no guarantee that it’s truthful, although it apparently accords with other accounts and the reporter’s experience visiting Guantanamo. Likewise, the prisoner’s account of what he was doing in Afghanistan in the first place is underwhelming. Nevertheless, after 26 months of interrogations, there was no evidence that he was in any way a threat to our security and he was released back to his native Briton.

If this story is even roughly true, we Americans ought to be ashamed. And don’t tell me that the fight against terrorism justifies this sort of treatment of prisoners. In fact, as the article points out, the treatment seems custom-made to generate false information.

For shame. I’m sending links to my senators — Kennedy and Kerry — and asking for an investigation. Yeah, sure, that’ll happen in an election year.

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