10 Years Too Many: Close Guantánamo

GITMO ON OBAMA'S WATCH: 

Ten years have passed since the first prisoner arrived in Guantánamo Bay, making it the longest-standing war prison in U.S. history. Almost 800 men have passed through Guantánamo’s cells. Today, 171 men remain. Fashioned as an “island outside the law” where terrorism suspects could be detained without process and interrogated without restraint, Guantánamo has been a catastrophic failure on every front. It is long past time for this shameful episode in American history to be brought to a close. 

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Ten years on, we are stuck in a multi-branch quagmire, where no arm of government is willing to act to end Guantánamo’s blight on our reputation and our security. All must change tack, and Guantánamo must close. 

• The Supreme Court must define the scope of war-time detention, and ensure that the right to habeas corpus is a meaningful one that tests, and does not endorse, the government’s case. 
• Congress must lift the unnecessary restrictions on transfer and release from Guantánamo, particularly for the 89 men whom our security services and military have unanimously determined should be released. 
• And the President must show the courage of his previously-stated convictions and either prosecute the other 82 men in federal court, if there is untainted evidence against them, or set them free.

From the Blog:

• INFOGRAPHIC: Guantánamo by the Numbers (1/9/2012)
• Injustice at Guantánamo: Past and Present (1/8/2012)