Andy McCarthy's points here would be understandable with regard to the 14 high-value detainees at Guantanamo (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, etc.). They are not nearly so compelling with regard to the hundreds of others often swept up due to hearsay from unreliable foreign witnesses or who were minimally involved in hostilities against the US. It is perhaps worth noting that McCarthy is an outlier. The Pentagon distanced itself from Stimson's statements, as did Stimson himself -- under pressure that was remarkably widespread. In some individual cases among the remaining detainees, McCarthy's concerns might be legitimate, but their wholesale application to this profoundly isolated class accused amdist the fog of war is shabby and unpersuasive. Background here.