Editorial: Guantanamo detainees are still trapped in a legal black hole
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Jun 13, 2019
3 minutes
Seventeen years after the George W. Bush administration began to imprison suspected terrorists at a U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and 10 years after then-President Barack Obama announced his intention to close the facility, 40 men remain incarcerated at Guantanamo facing the prospect of growing old and perhaps dying there. Only a handful have been charged with crimes. The rest are trapped in a legal black hole.
That is a colossal failure of policy
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