Afghan prisoner Abdul looks out from behind the bars at the Kandahar prison, Afghanistan, December 13, 2001. Dispensing with U.S. or international law as it rounded up suspects after the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration routinely captured "the wrong guys" - including a number who were working for the Afghan government. With more than two-thirds of the former detainees now released without charges, it is possible to draw a first assessment of the detention process.

• Read the McClatchy special package "Guantanamo: Beyond the Law"
• Watch the video about the eight-month investigation.
• See a database of 66 detainee profiles.

(TOM PENNINGTON/Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)