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Snowden would not have been sent to Guantanmo because he is an American citizen. The point of Guantanmo is that the US wanted a place to keep people who weren't
by barney54 11y ago
Snowden would not have been sent to Guantanmo because he is an American citizen. The point of Guantanmo is that the US wanted a place to keep people who weren't US citizens and wasn't on US soil.
- tootie 11y agoNot just that. They had all these detainees that they thought were probably terrorists, but they knew they didn't have enough evidence (or at least admissible evidence) to convict them. So, between sending them court knowing a lot of them would be acquitted or letting them go back to do whatever bad stuff they were worried would happen, they just decided to hold them in limbo. They have plenty of evidence to convict Snowden in a civilian court.
- jellicle 11y agoCorrect. He would be placed in permanent solitary confinement at ADX Florence in Colorado, not Guantanamo Bay. (Guantanamo Bay, in case you weren't aware, has entered the vernacular as a metaphor, and that's how the previous commenter was using it.)