If you had any illusions that Gitmo was about prosecutions...

...this may change your mind. The Washington Post has found that there were in fact no plans to create case files on detainees. Instead, files were kept broken up across multiple agencies and never integrated with an eye towards a court date.

Several former Bush administration officials agreed that the files are incomplete and that no single government entity was charged with pulling together all the facts and the range of options for each prisoner. They said that the CIA and other intelligence agencies were reluctant to share information, and that the Bush administration's focus on detention and interrogation made preparation of viable prosecutions a far lower priority.

While I have supported George W Bush in general, I always felt Guantanamo was an overreaction that could not be supported long-term.