Given that the poster responded to my comment about the KGB, this is really a stretch.

His point was that we'd fly people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time to black sites on the basis of tips and hearsay from insurgents, Afghani and Iraqi people.

If you know know you can throw innocent people, your enemy or a scapegoat under the bus for kicks and profit with no repercussions, it's going to happen. It isn't a uniquely American or Soviet thing.

I find rendition mentioned nowhere here. Your original point is very good, his conflation of the KGB's persecution of Soviet citizens with Guantanomo and with your point makes a couple of huge stretches, in the process polluting your original argument past the point of recognition much less sober consent. Objections to Guantanomo can't begin with the idea that it is a way of persecuting citizens of the country running it; since that's the precise opposite of the original legal basis for using a prison not in the United States - namely to keep non-US citizens from gaining any of the rights of US citizens. Contrary-to-fact is a poor start; I like your argument, it didn't benefit from his help, IMHO.

There are a lot of American citizens in Guantanamo? Yes

Really? You can bet on it. Around 33 soldiers or civilians for each captive human toy.

Since when?

Since bush created this shame and you are naively paying huge amounts of public money for it. After Miamigerald, only in 2015, the White House burned $445 million of the american citizens in this hole. Big sweet bussiness.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/...

Ironically Guantanamo is helping a lot of people to be much more successful as terrorists than when they were free. Each one of the prisoners is creating damages to USA economy for $7.29 million/year. Since 2011 and without throwing a single bomb.

I think you're deliberately misinterpreting both my statement, which was obviously about jailed Americans. If you simply wanted to state an opinion unrelated to my comment, as you go on to do - however worthy - you need to start your own reply thread to do that. Cost is a new subject, why crowbar it in here? To do so, you have to create the appearance of a disagreement with me, despite our disagreeing in no way at all. Why do that?

Who said anything about Americans? Afghans, Iraqis, and Yemenis are citizens of their respective countries.

michalskop made the conflation, implying that just as the KGB jailed its own citizens, so the Americans were acting today. You are strenuously agreeing with me, in rejecting that conflation.