Perspective
Sep. 4, 2014
End Gitmo's detention center
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the "gulag of our time," is turning the U.S., once a beacon for liberty and freedom, into an aggressive country that does not respect its own laws and principles.By Kenneth Eade
Amnesty International has called the Guantanamo Bay detention camp the "gulag of our time." Since President Barack Obama's Jan. 23, 2009 order to close the camp within one year, it has remained open because the president decided to amass political capital to use for his domestic agenda instead. On Jan. 7, 2011, Obama signed the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill, which placed restrictions on transferring prisoners to the United States. ...
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