This shouldn't suprise anyone, but I'm sure some (especially on the further fringes of the Neocon scale) will seem shocked by this. Apparently George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were all very aware that many of the detainees at Gitmo were completely innocent:

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.

The accusations were made by Lawrence Wilkerson, a top aide to Colin Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State, in a signed declaration to support a lawsuit filed by a Guantanamo detainee. It is the first time that such allegations have been made by a senior member of the Bush Administration.
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Colonel Wilkerson, a long-time critic of the Bush Administration’s approach to counter-terrorism and the war in Iraq, claimed that the majority of detainees - children as young as 12 and men as old as 93, he said - never saw a US soldier when they were captured. He said that many were turned over by Afghans and Pakistanis for up to $5,000. Little or no evidence was produced as to why they had been taken.

Link via The Agitator.  What's interesting here is that many of the people who fear the worst regarding what President Obama will do with Health Care Reform seem all too eager to trust the government 100% when it comes to unlimited and unchecked imprisonment of foreign nationals.  I theorized this quite a while ago:

... with all the controversy surrounding the base there, the government has a large incentive in making sure that nobody finds out that someone might be falsely imprisoned, which explains why so much evidence is not reviewable by a defense.  In fact, many good men who had issues with the tribunals because of this have resigned over it... for the very reason that the evidence in many cases is just that flimsy.

And so now we have even more proof that this is exactly what has happened there.  But of course, it doesn't extend just to foreign nationals. We are also finding out that the Obama Administration has literally put a hit out on an American Citizen for assasination:

The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.

Mr. Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and spent years in the United States as an imam, is in hiding in Yemen. He has been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was linked to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., in November, and then to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25.

Of course, he seems to be an evil person... but then... we have a crime that describes this behavior outlined in the Constitution. It is called treason, and captial punishment is even allowed in those cases. So why doesn't the government put him on trial in absentia first? Instead, we have "officials" who say he is "believed" to have shifted to participating in attacks. That's all it takes to authorize the assasination of a United States Citizen? A belief?