“Extremists mingled with moderates in every compound,” Lieutenant Commander Vasilios Tasikas, who ran legal operations at the prison, wrote in a 2009 essay in the Military Review. “Unfortunately, U.S. forces had adopted a model of detention operations that assumed that those interned were ‘all bad guys’ to be ‘warehoused’ for an indeterminate amount of time and released randomly in arbitrary groups. This approach was not only naïve and myopic, it was also dangerous; predictably, it fueled the insurgency inside the wire.”
