Shut It Down
"Few people would have imagined the U.S. government, even in the pursuit of national security, would ignore basic human rights principles by holding hundreds of men indefinitely without due process or the rule of law," a spokeswoman for Amnesty International said. "It is time to close Guantanamo and return America to leading the world on human rights again."
"The rules that were used to put them there have not been rescinded by the United States. They are still in place," Katherine Newell Bierman, Human Rights Watch counter-terrorism counsel, told Reuters. "I don't think any government should have that much power to act on a whim. They can make mistakes, they can do things that are flat out wrong," said Newell Bierman, who is writing a report on Guantanamo's operations.
Down to the Wire
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