1.  WHY IS CAMP X-RAY IMPORTANT?

2.  THESE ARE al Qaeda and Taliban - THE BAD GUYS, WHO CARES ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS?  WHAT ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO US?

3.  WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT NOT HAVING "LEGAL COUNSEL"?
One of the foundations of the American way, as well as a tenant of International Law, is that all people accused of crimes deserve to have legal representation.  Too often in small dictatorships suspects are whisked away in secret, tortured, tried, and executed without the benefit of someone to represent them and to help save their lives.  The United States must certainly avoid the mistakes that these nations make.  That is, we must prove ourselves better than our enemies.  Moreover, the State is an "expert" when it comes to trying and punishing people.  Therefore the people need an expert to help them defend themselves against the State.  Without the balance of power that fair, legal representation yields the State is too readily free to overwhelm "the little people".  Legal counsel for detainees also forces trials to be more public as the Counselor serves as a witness to the events that transpire.
  Imagine yourself imprisoned in a foreign country on trial for a crime.  Could you respect that country's justice system if it didn't allow you a lawyer or some kind or a fair trial?   Suppose it refused you legal counsel, kept you imprisoned without even charging you with a crime, refused to release your identity (so that your family and country wouldn't even know where you were) and refused to allow anyone (such as Amnesty International) to observe your condition?  Suppose that country also refused to grant you POW status, wouldn't tell you when, if ever, you might be released, and kept you locked away in a secret, remote place indefinitely?  This is exactly what the U.S. is doing, right now, to it's detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  They call it Camp X-Ray.



4.  THEY "HAVE NOT BEEN CHARGED" WITH CRIMES.  SO WHAT?

5.  WHAT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION?  WHY DOES IT MATTER HERE?