By Cliff Kincaid | August 3, 2006 The media's pack mentality against the terrorist prison at Guantanamo was recently demonstrated in a David Ignatius column in the Washington Post, where he noted that President Bush is "obviously tired of taking flak" about the prison and might therefore order it closed. This is what our media are good at-dispensing "flak" for a cause they believe in. In this case, the cause is freeing the prisoners at Guantanamo, or at least getting them transferred to some other place. The preoccupation of our media with this topic borders on the pathological. Why are they so determined to go to bat for suspected terrorists?
The case can actually be made that the U.S. has been too lenient on the prisoners and that they are being treated too nicely.
It goes without saying that reporters don't want to focus on those released from Guantanamo who go on to terrorize or murder again. Consider the case of six French former Guantanamo inmates released by the U.S. and then put on trial in a French court on charges of having "links with a network plotting terrorism attacks," as noted in a Reuters account. Perhaps they should have remained at Guantanamo. Is that something worth taking a look at?