But even before the latest revelations, the Bush administration’s assaults on civil liberties were legion, including its imprisonment of hundreds of men without charges at Guantánamo Bay in an effort to evade judicial review of their cases. It also rounded up, jailed, and deported hundreds of aliens in an anti-terrorist drive none of whose targets was shown to have any link to terrorism.
但是，即使在最新披露之前，布什当局对公民自由的侵犯也是大量的，包括为了逃避司法审议而在关塔纳摩基地未经指控而囚禁数以百计的人。它还在反恐行动中搜捕、囚禁以及遣返了数以百计的外国人，而他们中没有一人被证明与恐怖主义有联系。