I believe that this contradiction provides a basic reason why these activities have been kept secret. It casts doubt on the integrity and legality of the government's actions.
The line given at the beginning of the actions in Afgahnistan, was that these individuals who we're not part of an army sponsored by a country, and thus defy the rules of engagement set out by the Geneva Conventions. Thus these individuals we're not going to get trials by the Judicial system of any government but we're to get Military Trials. Now that the specifics of these secret prisons are still hazy. The rules Bush set up in his latest speeches still do not go into how the actions of the CIA are being modified. So in essense, the CIA can still play as they have. To appease public opinion, the "known secret" captives are being added to the Gitmo inmates. This issue still hasn't changed in 5 years, those captured on terrorist war battlefields, do they get the same rights as everyone else or a modified version of justice more in relation to wartimes?
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