The Afghan government has released a group of 37 prisoners from the former U.S. prison of Bagram. The Obama administration had lobbied intensely against the prisoners’ release, accusing them of attacks on Afghan civilians and U.S. troops. But the Afghan government has said there was insufficient evidence to justify their continued imprisonment. On Sunday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai called Bagram under U.S. control a “Taliban-making factory … where innocent people are tortured and insulted and made dangerous criminals.”