The article covers some of the specific cases that are basically in a legal limbo.
Gitmo is Bush's baby. Its hard to find a single bit of Bush policy that holds any value. Gitmo is another part of that ill advised legacy.
Bush apparently opened the camp either not thinking through its ultimate state, which is likely, or thinking that the prisoners would be there for their lifetimes.
Reuters: Guantanamo guilty go free while "cleared" stay
"It is a system so broken, so discredited, that it cannot be saved by any amount of administrative or legislative duct tape," said Amnesty International's executive director Larry Cox.
A federal judge ordered that some of them, 17 Chinese Muslims of the Uighur minority, be freed in the United States. But an appeals court ruled in April that judges don't have authority to give such an order.
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