Gitmo trials

Okay so when it comes to really high level trials dealing with the government where, for safety and national security's sake they have to lie, you really cannot believe a whole lot of the stuff you read in newspapers because the news is really far down on the food chain. So you take everything here with a grain of salt.
I have a problem though, just with the last line:

Meanwhile, Vijay Padmanabhan, a former state department lawyer, said the creation of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp was "one of the worst over-reactions of the Bush administration".

Does he have ANY idea what middle eastern terrorists do to their POWs? Torture them, chop off their heads, desecrate the bodies, its not pretty.
The Bush government wasn't just being paranoid and throwing random joe's in gitmo, these are very bad people.