My Trip to GTMO

One year into his presidency, Barack Obama still hasn't managed to close the controversial U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay. But its days are clearly numbered. Here's how I'll always remember the place.

BY JOSH ROGIN | JANUARY 23, 2010

Inside the wire: In 2006, I spent three weeks at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, touring the facility and attending hearings for the now-defunct military commissions. The prison system at GTMO had evolved since the first suspected terrorists were taken there in 2001, from flimsy cages to state-of-the-art Supermax prisons with the latest technologies.

 

Josh Rogin, a staff writer at Foreign Policy, reports daily on U.S. national security and diplomacy at The Cable.

SILVERSTAR

9:12 AM ET

February 1, 2010

Barack Obama

But I like Barack Obama. I think he does a great job.

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FRANKFREDDY

8:52 PM ET

February 3, 2010

Barack Obama oneself can't

Barack Obama oneself can't make any change. He need a support from his parliament members. If he the only one who wnant to close GTMO but the others didn't then it mean noting,,
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AMES_RUSSELL_3337

8:45 PM ET

February 4, 2010

Gitmo

Crumby bastards should have been electrocuted upon entry...

 

KBUCK

11:03 AM ET

February 8, 2010

Omar Khadr

What isn't mentioned about Omar Khadr, who was 15 (a child soldier) when he was put in Gitmo, is that he is Canadian - the only westerner still being held, because the Canadian government refuses to ask for him to be repatriated.