Camp X-Ray telling the difference between truth and lies

With the release of the names of the prisoners at Camp X-Ray, the pressure to close that camp is sure to go up. Mark my words, in the next couple days; we will start seeing biographical clips of many of the prisoners. These clips will make the men look like everyday people, who were rounded up by a corrupt and paranoid country. Why? Because if it was clear that most of these men were terrorists, they won’t be being held there, they’d have been tried and sent to real prison. Most of the men there are not there because they are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of being a terrorist (however based on what I’ve read they have committed some crime, which in America would get you incarcerated.) Is being a terrorist a crime, even if they haven’t done anything yet? Think of it this way: Is serving as a member of terrorist group, which seeks to undermine the legitimately elected government of a nation, treason? Well, that kind of sounds like the definition of treason... (Conspiracy to commit treason is also a crime, as is espionage.) Now then I have also checked and the punishment for treason in the US and the countries these men were captured in is still death. (In theory anyone who swore allegiance to the Taliban, was committing treason against the elected government of Afghanistan, which was over thrown illegally in 1996.)

Is everyone in Camp X-Ray an enemy combatant? No, probably not, the problem is how to tell who is and who isn’t. Anyone who figures out how to solve that little problem deserves a Nobel Peace Prize (but is more like to get it for Medicine or Chemistry). Actually, the simple solution is PET scans (no Nobel is necessary, it is my honor to serve). But since these men have been questioned for so long I doubt that even PET can determine if they are lying. If you want to use PET you need to do it early in the interrogation process, because if they are use to repeating the same thing over and over it is more difficult to detect, then if they’re having to come up fresh answers (lies). However, you could use the PET scan as propaganda tool. First convince the prisoners, it is infallible, and unlike a lie detector test can’t be fooled. Take a couple of the obviously guilty and probably innocent into be tested, the guilty are immediately transferred to new prisons, and innocent are immediately let go. It is human nature that the innocent will see it as a way to prove their innocence and be more receptive to testing while the guilty will see it as bad thing and resist even passively. Ok the guilty are smart and realize this and not believing PET to be infallible (most will have received training on how to beat lie detector tests) will also want the opportunity to prove their innocence. PET can then be used to pick up on the mental discipline, yes this isn’t a sure sign of guilt, but it is sign that innocence is less likely.

The real problem is what to do with all the people who are innocent. If they weren’t terrorists before, well chances are that four years of false imprisonment with men who are terrorists, might have changed that. That problem not even I have an idea on how to solve.