Fox News reports that the Pentagon announced its plans to release some of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in the aftermath of Colin Powell’s letter to Rumsfeld that I translated mentioned earlier:

Defense Department officials denied that the release was the result of a complaint by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has pressed the Pentagon to move faster in determining the fate of the prisoners at Guantanamo, some of whom have been held a year and a half without charges or access to lawyers. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity.

In what officials have said was a strongly worded letter, Powell told Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that eight allies had complained about the holding of their citizens. He said the way the situation was being handled was undermining efforts to win international cooperation in the war on terror.

The release has been in the planning process for several weeks, Pentagon officials said.

Translation? The latest Harris Poll results say it all.

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