NYT Discovers 9/11 Accused Still in Gitmo 20+ Years Later
Twenty-two years after 9/11, the 'justice' system for its alleged perpetrators remains a national embarrassment. The NYT's latest piece on a judge rejecting demands to send accused plotters back to Guantánamo offers a glimpse into a legal purgatory, carefully avoiding the obvious conclusion: this is not a bug, but a feature. The US has spent two decades and billions on a detention camp where
torture was sanctioned, evidence is tainted, and few have ever seen a courtroom. (One might wonder if holding a trial would expose too much about how we got here.) While the focus remains on the accused, the media rarely questions the architects of this endless war. How much has the 'war on terror' cost us in blood and treasure, only to end in military tribunals stuck in neutral for decades? This
perpetual state of exception allows for ever-expanding powers, always in the name of national security, never confronting the policy failures or the inconvenient Saudi connections that remain largely unexamined in mainstream discourse. It's a convenient amnesia, ensuring the 'forever wars' have forever justifications.