Guantanamo bay spies?

The whole point of Guantanamo bay is to keep the hard-core criminals locked away, but as you can see in this video the U.S. came up with a plan on using the prisoners to their advantage. The prisoners were housed in penny lane, a base located near Guantanamo. They were given real beds, private kitchens and showers, pornography for those who ever wanted it, and paid millions of dollars by a CIA account code-named pledge. After 9/11 the  U.S. trained prisoners to be spies then infiltrate them back into Al Qaeda. The big question here is will this help America, or will it back fire?

Michael Leiter feels it was a good decision because with the training these prisoners were given, they will be able to inform us before Al Qaeda is able to plan an attack. On the other side of that point is that if these "spies" return back to Al Qaeda with all the information that was maybe given to them they will choose to help in attacking us. That is where the government went wrong in this plan, what if? what if the prisoners do help in protecting our country and we will have an inside ally watching our backs, but also what if they choose to plot against us when reunited with Al Qaeda members which would be the worst problem that can happen.

I definitely do not agree with the tactics our government is using to get information. Though it can be beneficial, it can also be very dangerous. These prisoners are high level criminals that can have change of heart at any moment. And if this plan doesn't unfold the way our government envisioned it then our country will suffer greatly.

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I am commenting on U.S Events Education Equals Money. Maria argued that the government shouldn't be making a profit off college students loans and the interest rates should stop rising. I agree, College isn't cheap so many struggle to pay their way through leaving them slumped in debt after years of school. And as you said we are the future of this country so college should be a more inviting experience.

There is not much criticism I can do here because everything you said is true. Government is once again doing a fine job at taking care of small problems, but terrible with the biggest most important ones. I can tell you wrote this with some emotion because this something that can hurt a lot of us in the end. you made a good argument because its something that thousands of students would agree with.