Guantanamo Study Flawed by Jennifer Rubin

Politicians, policy makers, military officials, independent analysts and pundits have debated endlessly whether to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility and what legal rights and remedies should be provided to the detainees held there. At the outset, both sides in the debate agreed the detainees there were dangerous and properly classified as enemy combatants. That changed beginning in 2005 when the Department of Defense released unclassified studies of 517 records (one was a duplicate, bringing the correct figure to 516) from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT).

Professor Mark Denbeaux of Seton Hall Law School and Joshua Denbeaux, of the Denbeaux & Denbeaux law firm, studied the materials and issued a series of reports, the first of which asserted that individuals were being held who were not a serious threat to our national security and had not conducted or supported hostile action against the United States. The Denbeaux Report was widely commented on and provided ammunition to those claiming Guantanamo should be shut down.

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