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Gitmo’s Living Legacy in the Trump Era

16th October, 2017 · admin
Donald Trump

Donald Trump

TomDispatch: Almost 13 years later, Guantanamo remains open. It is still officially a “detention facility,” not a “prison,” and those held within it still aren’t “prisoners” – you weren’t even allowed to use that word there in 2007 – but “enemy combatants,” a category the Bush administration believed put them beyond all legal norms, American or international. As Greenberg reports today, the Trump administration has just classified its first American prisoner off the battlefields of Syria as an “enemy combatant.” Gulp. Click here to read more (external link).

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