ACLU Crunches Guantanamo Numbers

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Jan 09, 2012 at 08:25:33 PM EST
Tags: Guantanamo (all tags)

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The ACLU today published this handy graphic after crunching the numbers on Guatanamo detainees.

Among the stats:

92% of the detainees were never al-Qaeda fighters. 86% were turned over to coalition forces for a bounty. Only 5% were captured by U.S. soldiers.
Number of children detained at Gitmo: 21 (the youngest was 13.)
The oldest detainee was 98.
More than 200 FBI agents reported abusive treatment of detainees
At least 16 were tortured in overseas secret prisons before getting to Gitmo
8 detainees have died. 6 were suicides, including a detainee who arrived at Gitmo at age 16 and killed himself at age 21.

There are 171 detainees still at Guantanamo. 89 have been cleared for release. The amount it costs per year to keep the 89 detained at Gitmo: $70 million.

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Nostalgia (5.00 / 2) (#1)
by lentinel on Mon Jan 09, 2012 at 09:26:24 PM EST

Obama during his campaign: November 14, 2007:

"Last point, Guantanamo. That's easy. Close down Guantanamo."

January 22, 2009: From CNN

President Obama signs the order requiring that the Guantanamo Bay facility be closed within a year.
Promising to return America to the "moral high ground" in the war on terrorism, President Obama issued three executive orders Thursday to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush administration, including one requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within a year.
During a signing ceremony at the White House, Obama reaffirmed his inauguration pledge that the United States does not have "to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals."
The president said he was issuing the order to close the facility in order to "restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism."

Oops.

Expected (5.00 / 1) (#6)
by Abdul Abulbul Amir on Tue Jan 10, 2012 at 09:42:13 AM EST

This is what you would expect from a guy with no executive experience. It is best to work out a plan and then do the announcement, not the other way around. A rookie mistake.

"So let it be written. So let it be done." may work in the movies but democratic government is a bit more nuanced.

: He (none / 0) (#8)
by lentinel on Tue Jan 10, 2012 at 04:18:09 PM EST

was just blowing smoke.
Experienced or not.
He was just blowing smoke.

At least he's never approached (none / 0) (#5)
by Edger on Tue Jan 10, 2012 at 09:34:26 AM EST

that masterful line from his party's last president...

"Well, I meant it when I said it."

There's a new handy name (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by Edger on Mon Jan 09, 2012 at 09:39:24 PM EST

The 5%'ers.

They spent ten years and how many trillions, again?

For what? To buy some prisoners who were never fighters or any kind of a threat to anyone to begin with?

200 FBI agents reported abuse... (5.00 / 3) (#3)
by Mr Natural on Tue Jan 10, 2012 at 05:49:25 AM EST

"Stress positions" are torture. No need to look any further for proof that in terms of human behavior the Nazis death camp staffers were not an aberration.

Nothing depresses my Marine brother worse... (5.00 / 2) (#4)
by Dadler on Tue Jan 10, 2012 at 09:14:44 AM EST

...than the mere mention of Guantanamo still being open. Puts him in a very foul mood.

What did the 98-year old detainee (none / 0) (#7)
by KeysDan on Tue Jan 10, 2012 at 10:08:05 AM EST

do? What is his sentence, indefinite detention or two years, which every comes first? My goodness.