No injustices occur at Guantánamo

I found your editorial "Injustices endure at Guantánamo" [April 27] disturbing and inaccurate. There are no injustices occurring at Gitmo. The legal process has been meddled with repeatedly due to pressure from terrorist sympathizers, but the United States has followed the Geneva Conventions and the Law of Land Warfare, which say that detained persons who are not charged with war crimes can be held "until the end of hostilities."

Where those regulations don't apply, the Department of Defense and Army policy and regulations have been implemented. We treat all detainees with dignity and respect; 99.9 percent of all U.S. military personnel who have served or are serving at Gitmo have and are doing so honorably.

When I was serving there as the ranking Army Medical Department officer, responsible for the oversight of detainee and U.S. personnel health care, International Committee of the Red Cross physicians I spoke with told me that the United States is the best in the world at detention operations.

As for the Uighurs, they were all collected on the battlefield in Afghanistan, most fleeing al-Qaida training bases in Tora Bora. The fact that we classify them as no longer a threat to the United States and no longer an intelligence asset, and their own country doesn't want them back, is no reason to sympathize with people who chose to leave their own country to engage in enemy activity.

If you don't like the law, say so, but please don't imply the operation at Guantánamo Bay is anything but lawful, as you would be incorrect.

Montgomery J. Granger, Port Jefferson Station

Editor's note: The writer is a major with 22 years of service in the Army Reserves and the author of "Saving Grace at Guantánamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior."