Here is a Reuters' link from Rutabaga Ridgepole on Desidero's #1 post at this time here on TPM Cafe: 

 http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51O3TB20090225

It brings to light a trend in Guantanamo amongst the guards to torment their charges "while they still can".

While we worry about the complexities of this situation, the hows and the whens for trials and the release of captives held without due process, we do have another consideration.  Who ARE these people that commit these atrocities, and are we going to release them to live among the general public.  The guards!  They are more a threat to peace then some of these prisoners.  They have developed [or maybe they had them all along] these violent proclivities that have led them to beat their prisoners, dislocate the limbs of prisoners, and torment them with pepper spray emitted into closed cells with the prisoners or applied to their toilet seats.  These guys and gals are twisted and sick.

It makes a little sense not to simply put the prisoners on a plane and let them all go free in the United States.  There are some prisoners there that have committed atrocities of their own, and frankly, I do expect there to be trials for each and every one of them before they are released anywhere.  But that should have been conducted long ago.  My post is not about how we have abandoned our values to incarcerate anyone we could get our hands on that might possibly be related to the resistance in Iraq, whether the grounds for their abduction were well-grounded or not.  My post is about alleviating the conditions in Guantanamo right now, to bring some relief to the prisoners until we can deal with them.  My proposition is that we clean house.  Let's remove every guard who is there today and replace them, all of them.

It's probably unlikely that we can identify who the brutes are within the Guantanamo Bay facilities, so let's simply get them all out of there, no judgments made.  Then the military should evaluate their mental states and demand they participate in a program to help them adjust to a society where they are not in complete control of those around them.  Some of these guards are simply dangerous.  

There is a supposition on my part about the guards at Guantanamo.  I assume they were changed by having to work in that environment.  But as I noted above, they may have always had these tendencies.  Some people will join the military to participate in this kind of dominance.  But I suspect many of them came to behave like this much the same way that old captive/captor experiment conducted long ago at a university, where the prisoners became the guards and perpetuated the abuses that they loathed when they had been prisoners.  I imagine this transformation to monster does not happen over night, and the management of the guards can be more involved, because this is not an experiment to see how people change if left to their own devices.  We already know the tendencies that can develop.  So while I have no permanent answer to what to do about the prisoners, I am saying, we should do something about the guards.  It is time to clean house, and we can do that now.