Eleven simple rules for hiding a war crime

Karen Greenberg spells out the ways that the government lies to the press, the people, and themselves about the continuing abomination known as Guantanamo. Sample:

3. Guantanamo is not about guilt and innocence -- or, once an enemy combatant, always an enemy combatant. "Today, it is not about guilt or innocence. It's about unlawful enemy combatants," Rear Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr.,the Commanding Officer of Guantanamo tells us. "And they are all unlawful enemy combatants."