Originally Posted by Eric5273

To quote Ronald Reagan, "there you go again"

They are not "terrorists". They are accused terrorists. There is a difference. And most of them have turned out to be innocent as is evidenced by their being released.

The question is not whether terrorists should have rights, but whether those being accused of being terrorists should have the right to clear their name and prove they are not a terrorist.

You might as well say that murderers do not deserve to have rights, so from now on anyone arrested for murder should just be executed with no trial or nothing.

We are currently holding over 14,000 "detainees" (for lack of a better term) and none of them have been charged with a crime, told why they are being held, and their families have not even been notified that they are in custody. They have simply been kidnapped and in most cases, I'm sure their families assume they are dead. Some of them have been held for over 4 years.

Over 18,000 have been held for periods of more than a year, and then released without ever being told why they were arrested in the first place, and without any compensation or apology.

If they are terrorists, then charge them with a crime and have a trial. I'm pretty sure that the right to prove one's innocence is not something that is an "American" right but a human right.