Consider the decision radically to loosen evidentiary standards when deciding to incarcerate terrorist suspects in Guantánamo Bay or elsewhere. The result has been to encourage liars to clog the system with disinformation and false leads while discouraging honest people from reporting what they observe, lest an innocent neighbor be incarcerated on the basis of misperceptions.
让我们考虑一下这一局面，也就是在决定把恐怖疑犯关押在关塔纳摩基地或者其他地方的时候大幅度放松证据标准。这样做的结果就是鼓励撒谎者用虚假信息和线索阻碍体制，与此同时又不让诚实的人们报告他们的所见所闻，唯恐由于感觉错误而把无辜的邻居关押起来。