The Bush in Obama
Six months after he ordered an end to torture and CIA “black sites,” and promised to close Guantánamo within a year, Barack Obama seems merely to be re-branding the worst of Bush’s excesses when it comes to US treatment of detainees in the "war on terror." Not only are military tribunals being revived, but so is indefinite "preventive detention."
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GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA – Hearings are underway in the United States Senate to assess what to do with the 240 detainees still behind bars at Guantánamo Bay, and what will become of the military tribunals and detention without trial that the Bush administration and a compliant Congress put into place. The US Congress is also debating what will happen to the detention camp itself, which was established in 2002 to house men who were allegedly “the worst of the worst,” in a setting deliberately framed by Bush attorneys as “legal outer space.”