The War on Terror must be going well. And we must be safer, right? After all, we've locked up in dog kennels some of the world's most dangerous terrorists — "the worst of a very bad lot," Vice President Dick Cheney has called them. "These are people who would gnaw through hydraulic lines at the back of a C-17 to bring it down," according to Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Except that they are not. It turns out that none of the detainees at the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay ranked as leaders or senior operatives of Al Qaeda. But still we've imprisoned some 595 human beings (no one can really say how many or who since it's a secret) for 2 1/2 years now. So we must be safer. Aren't we?
New York Times: U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantanamo Detainees
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