The detainees [at Guantanamo] who are refusing food have been stripped of all possessions, including a sleeping mat and soap, and are made to sleep on concrete floors in freezing solitary cells. “It is possible that I may die in here,” said Shaker Aamer through his lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith. “I hope not, but if I do die, please tell my children that I loved them above all else, but that I had to stand up for the principle that they cannot just keep holding people without a trial, especially when they have been cleared for release.” Aamer, a British father of four, was approved for release more than five years ago.

Col. Morris Davis, who served as Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo, personally charged Osama bin Laden’s driver Salim Hamdan, Australian David Hicks, and Canadian teen Omar Khadr. All three were convicted and have been released from Guantanamo. “There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where not being charged with a war crime keeps you locked away indefinitely and a war crime conviction is your ticket home,” Davis wrote to Obama.

The above was written by a lawyer, and law professor, a former president of the National Lawyers’ Guild, an organization that once defended, and included, American Communists (neither a problem in my book, where, in one chapter, actual Nazis get a pass, a nice salary and generous pension, from the US government because of their staunch anti-Red credentials) so you can take that into account if you like.  But, I mean, WTF?!!  The rest of the piece is here.