Andy Worthington, author of the January 24th article ‘For Detainees, Obama Off to Good Start‘, discusses Barack Obama’s initial executive orders regarding the closure of Gitmo and secret CIA prisons, the lengthy year-long review process for detainee trials, how the Bush administration’s torture policy ruined any opportunity to prosecute the few legitimate terrorism cases, the propaganda potential in the Pentagon’s loaded phrase ‘returned to the battlefield’ and the relatively low recidivism rate of detainees released from Guantanamo compared to ordinary American civilian prisons.
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