Reply #23: Here's the simple version for you.

[TheWraith]

One, we need to establish some way of sorting actual dangerous prisoners from goatherds and taxi drivers who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Either that's by a set of legal criteria, or by the judgement of a person or group of people. Evaluating those cases is going to be a lengthy process.

Then, we need a system that allows us to do something about the guys who are actually dangerous without having to rely on inadmissible evidence gained from torture. Maybe that's keeping them ourselves, maybe it's shipping them to their country of origin. That determination has to be made too, weighing all the facts available and more importantly the legal and moral implications of each individual decision. All of this is going to take time.