Guantánamo: A Decade of U.S. Torture and Repression
Submitted on January 17, 2012
By Bill Van Auken - 13 January 2012
The Bush administration established the detention center [at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba] with the explicit aim of holding prisoners as “enemy combatants”, a term invented to deny them any rights either under the US Constitution as criminal defendants or under the Geneva Conventions as prisoners of war. The Bush Justice Department ruled that the naval base lay outside the jurisdiction of any American court, and therefore those held there could seek no legal redress over their imprisonment.
