[From the BBC]
The US is "stuck" with the Guantanamo Bay detention centre even though it wants to close it, Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said. Mr Gates said the US wanted to send up to 70 prisoners home but countries would either not take them or could not be trusted to.
Human rights groups have long argued for its closure, saying it does not meet international legal standards. The prison in Cuba currently has about 270 detainees...
Democratic Party Senator Dianne Feinstein told Mr Gates: "Nothing you have said absolves the enormous loss of credibility we have in the eyes of the world...
[The underlining is mine. Read the rest of the article here.]
It is telling that this reporting comes out of the BBC (and not mainstream America).
ReplyDeleteSad... the best reporting in the US strikes me as being square with the truth (though still biased) but it is so rare in the sea of noise
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