Since this article was alleging that the Gitmo prisoners really didn’t belong, the parallel to the mistakenly convicted is obvious. Those in Gitmo didn’t even get the right to go before a court until several years afterwards.
And since I'm pointing out that that premise is mistaken -- i.e. it is a detention facility not a penal one -- my comparison of it to a county jail, rather than a state prison is apt.
I have no problem believing that some who were in the wrong place at the wrong time were detained at Gitmo. I have no problem believing that some who were in the wrong place at the wrong time died in missile strikes either.
I take issue with the claim that Gitmo was an unjust or immoral solution to a problem, or that we purposely sought to punish innocent people.
There were a whole lot of innocent people detained at refugee camps after the Vietnam War. Do you have a problem with that?