New Film “Discreet Airlift” Documents the Struggle to Hold U.S. Officials Accountable for Torture...

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731 Unlawful combatant detainees have been released from the US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and not ONE has been executed, beheaded, blown up, hacked to death, dragged naked and lifeless through the streets, drowned or burned alive, all things our enemies have done to us and/or our allies. There is no moral comparison between how the US treats detainees and how our enemies treat captives. You mention "9/11" but not the nearly 3,000 innocent human beings who perished that day. These victims, noncombatants, were incinerated, burned alive, smashed, suffered unimaginable terror and pain, some even jumped off of a burning skyscraper rather than let the flames consume them. No mention of this torture. Unlawful combatants may be shot on sight according to the Geneva Conventions and Law of Land Warfare, documents US troops study and obey. Unlawful combatant detainees are entitled to ZERO extra legal privileges. They are not entitled to the rights and privileges of POW's (lawful combatants). As for abuse in US custody, yes, and I was witness to some abuse, but it was dealt with swiftly and harshly. As for "torture," I believe that none occurred at Gitmo. Waterbaording and other Enhanced Interrogation Techniques? Yes. But those were approved and legal and none fit the internationally accepted definition of torture at the time they were used. In fact, in his autobiography, "Decision Points," former US President George W. Bush says that only "a handful of detainees were waterboarded," the information from which "saved many lives." International Committee of the Red Cross physicians I worked with at Gitmo and then later at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (after the abuse scandal there), told me, "No one does [detention operations] better than the US." As proof, I challenge you to do a similar expose on the treatment of captives by al Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban. Sincerely, Montgomery J. Granger, Major, US Army, Retired, and author: "Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior."