It may seem quite normal in any other country to house "combatants" they capture in their own country... Only in America however would this be a subject for debate. No state wants Gitmo and the controversy surrounding the criminal judicial process used to implicate them in crimes on their soil. For these reasons republicrats are signaling they want Gitmo to remain open until something can be done with these patsies.

In spite of the fact that forced confessions for the September 11th attacks were acquired through the same torture practices as those brought on the other gitmo residents in question, Attorney General Eric Holder is investigating whether these other suspects (not implicated in 9/11) had their cases compromised by torture practices. Yet no one is questioning whether these same practices could have in anyway compromised the validity of Khalid Sheik Mohammads confession, the man who has nearly taken full responsibility for 9/11! With the exception of hinting at it here and there, but never moving significantly from their assertion that it was him

So as this divergent issue of which country the AMERICAN prison should be in (!) rages on, the implication of this man in 9/11 using the torture practices in question has slipped by unscathed. This can not be overstated.

See full article in the New York Times for a bullshit diversion.

But wasnt the waterboarding and 100+ other interrogation procedures which have been overshadowed by this relatively light form of torture, used to get a confession for masterminding 9/11? Thankfully through years of desensitization to the agony of brown people, the average westerner no longer has the capacity to empathize and understand what a situation involving secret prisons and torture may be like for a brown person. They most certainly cannot be expected to see how being held captive and abused day in and day out for years can cause someone to have a change of heart. NOPE!!! Just presume that it took 4 years for this guy to confess because he was curious about what American torture entailed and wanted a little vacation...

So why isnt the supposed conviction of the supposed 9/11 mastermind receiving much attention asides from quarky pieces on Fox News? Likely because they realize that to any rational person who has the capacity to comprehend and investigate causality (how things cause other things) that this story may come off as moldy swiss cheese. Meanwhile... POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER has been found to only affect American veterans, and no one else in the world who is less human.