The story is the coming Gitmo threat assessment. The juicy Vanity Fair story on the fair-haired anarchist lends credence to earlier reports that Assange has U.S. government’s appraisal of which of the 800 Guantanamo detainees were jihadists who might pose a threat to the United States and which weren’t.
These documents, notes Wired, would be revelatory and useful the public in sorting out the nature of the threat that American people actually face. An astonishingly high proportion of the 800 detainess posed no threat whatsoever at the time of their detention. Many if not most of them have been released. Of the less than 200 remain some core would certainly return to planning attacks on U.S. targets if released.
Why can’t the American people be trusted with this information? These documents will likely illuminate the folly of rounding up people indiscriminately and torturing them for those who still defend those practice AND they would also highlight those jihadists who truly do pose a threat to the people of the United States.
But why talk policy when we can dish about Julian on the jump?
