Gitmo Prisoners in Perpetuity

Talk about burying the lead (or lede for the journo-fascistic). These are the LAST lines from today's WaPo article on the Senate Gitmo hearings:

Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., later asked for a timetable. "If there is no definition as to when the conflict ends, that means forever, forever, forever these folks get held at Guantanamo Bay," he said.

[Deputy associate attorney generalMichael]Wiggins responded: "It's our position that, legally, they can be held in perpetuity."

The U.S. position is that it can hold untried, unconvicted, and even uncharged people in custody FOREVER?

And the WaPo thinks this is the LEAST important revelation at the hearings?

Well golly, I guess by today's standards, when the rape, torture and murder of those in US custody goes almost without punishment, virtually without comment, I guess just holding them for all eternity is no big deal.

And they're apparently well fed.