I know a snitch when i see one...

Or he's a Saudi National and has friends in the Saudi government. GASP.

Or, he ratted his friends out in exchange for having his charges dropped.

You people kill me with this double standards stuff..

So the evil bush administration can just grab anyone anywhere off the street and they are sent to hidden and secret torturing facilities in Europe and Gitmo and all over the world one week..

and the next week they lack the 'evidence' to 'detain' him further??
Seriously, what evidence do they NEED, and who do they need to PROVE it to??

Hell if the powers that be so deigned it, this guy could simply 'disappear', and they could fabricate any story they wanted about how he escaped and dived into the ocean never to be seen again, or they let him go, and dont know where he is..

Pick a side.. either Bush and the American Government are an evil tyrannical administration of liars and decievers and power mongers.. or they are people capable of making mistakes but willing to fix them, as exemplified by their 'dropping' the charges against him.

Bottom line: When you and 20 of your friends get busted for something.. then after a time, the police drop YOUR charges while keeping ours and let YOU go.. you're either a Narc or a SNITCH.
Thats the street.

"Hell if the powers that be so deigned it, this guy could simply 'disappear'"

But then they wouldn't have all that "War on Terror" propaganda to prance in front of our oh-so-ignorant-citizen faces during election time, now would they?

"So the evil bush administration can just grab anyone anywhere off the street and they are sent to hidden and secret torturing facilities in Europe and Gitmo and all over the world one week."

Yes. There are currently CIA agents on trial, in absentia natch, in Italy for this exact crime.

"Thats the street."

This isn't "the street." Grow up.

"Or, he ratted his friends out in exchange for having his charges dropped."

Right, heard you the first time, explained why you were probably wrong. When criminals get deals, their charges are dismissed WITH prejudice. Otherwise, the deal is garbage, since the charges can be brought again. In this case, the chaarges were dismissed WITHOUT prejudice, meaning that the government currently lacks the evidence to make it's case stick.

WITH /= WITHOUT being the key point.

"Pick a side.. either Bush and the American Government are an evil tyrannical administration of liars and decievers and power mongers.. or they are people capable of making mistakes but willing to fix them, as exemplified by their 'dropping' the charges against him."

That's a fake choice. There is no monolithic "American Government" being alleged here. The Bush administration decided, on it's own, that it was now okay to torture people. They used "National Security" as their excuse, and chumps like you bought into it.

They succeeded in breaking the law because most people don't give a shit. Just because we suck doesn't make them omnipotent. They still don't have the power to make torturing false confessions out of people and then using them in trial into a new rule.

So, the confessions can't be used in trial. So, we can't convict him of anything. So, the alleged murderer of 3,000 people on 9/11 goes free without a trial.

But you don't care. You don't care about 9/11, about Al Qaeda, about keeping Americans safe from further terrorist attacks. All you care about is YOURSELF, and feeling superior to the dirty hippies makes you feel good, so you just stick your head in the sand on all this shit.