VDH has the rundown.
“It seems to me you can think of these people as combatants and we are
in the middle of a war. And it seems to me that you could probably say,
looking at precedent, that you are going to detain these people until
war is over, if that is ultimately what we wanted to do.” Later in 2002
Holder elaborated, “One of the things we clearly want to do with these
prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what
their future plans might be, where other cells are located. Under the
Geneva Convention, you are really limited in the amount of information
that you can elicit from people…[They] are not, in fact, people
entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not
prisoners of war…Those in Europe and other places who are concerned
about the treatment of al-Qaida members should come to Camp X-ray and
see how the people are, in fact, being treated.”
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