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It would seem that the first order of business should be a division of prisoners. Those that can legally be shown to have a reasonable suspicion of being found guilty in a court of law should be charged and moved to Federal Prisons around the country for trial.

Those that are left, that are uncharged, and there is no proof of guilt, should be repatriated to the country of their choice.

If there is a problem with repatriation, and that then becomes the reason they remain in Guantanamo, the conditions should be drastically changed to reflect their status of, “innocent waiting to be repatriated”.

The gulag should be changed to a civilian holding facility, with civilian guards and management. The management should be a recognized prison management organization not some version of a Blackwater operation. Finally on a case by case basis if the detainees agreed they could be transferred to the Bagram civilian holding area below if that would allow them access to their families while waiting to be repatriated.

This might change the timetable of the closing, but would reflect a sense of justice. Further it might lessen the resentment felt by those being held unjustly which would help when they were released. It might also help with the reputation of the United States internationally. But most important it would go a long way to providing JUSTICE.

Simultaneously with the process in Guantanamo the same should be done with the prisoners in the Bagram gulag. With the exception that instead of shipping those that are legally charged, based on legal evidence of probably cause, to federal prisons in the US, there should be convened and international COURT of law, on site to try them, and they should be held in a human area with conditions reflecting their status.

The others, the ones that cannot be legally charged for lack of evidence, should be moved to a new “holding area” with vastly improved conditions, food etc. Where their families could come, where conjugal visits could be held, and where the detainees could expect active assistance in being repatriated.

This system would help with the detainees anger at being held illegally when they know they are innocent, and it would help the US with its reputation internationally.

It would also go a long way to putting some justice in the process.

I would also argue that those that were unjustly imprisoned without probable cause, and where no evidence of terrorist activity could be shown should be given a modest repatriation stipend to first help with the injustice, second to help with re-establishment in civilian life, and third again to help with the international reputation of the US.

I do not like being a country that has political gulags. I do not like being a country that having been bombed into the brutal world of terrorism has suddenly dropped all of our cherished Constitutional values and become a dictatorship to foreign nationals where one is guilty until, and if we get around to proving you guilty.