Anthony Ognibene Close Down Guantanamo Bay When discussing the importance of the Guantanamo Bay criminal detention facility located in Cuba‚ the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter stated that‚ “I think what ’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn ’t say it ’s the cause of terrorism‚ but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.” President Obama has vowed at the
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the Detention center in Guantanamo Bay. One of the main questions that are being asked is whether or not the detention at Guantanamo bay Is unconstitutional. One other key Point that has been raised in the possible closing of Guantanamo bay is where will the detainees go if it is closed. In order to better understand the reasoning behind this detention we must look at the reason for the detention in the first place. For the detainees that are being kept on Guantanamo bay They are there do to being
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human rights by allowing the mistreatment of prisoners at the Guantanamo bay prison on the island of Cuba. America has always symbolized a nation that promotes and protects human rights and always stood as a symbol of democracy for the rest of the world. However‚ the long standing tradition of obeying the values instituted by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights has been reversed by Guantanamo Bay. The human rights that the United States stands for have not been provided for the detainees at Guantanamo
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Guantanamo Bay The United States detention facility located at Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba was opened in 2002 by George W. Bush to hold enemy combatants from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are currently three sections in Guantanamo Bay: Camp Delta‚ Camp Echo‚ and Camp Iguana. Insurgents are kept at Guantanamo Bay for a variety of reasons and there are CIA interrogators at the camp to gather information. On January 22‚ 2009‚ President Obama signed an executive order closing the Guantanamo Bay detention
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There is a time before and after the events on 9/11. And that events were the reason why the Guantanamo Bay prison was established in January 2002And after the events the United States of America started the ’’War on Terror’’ by hunting down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts‚" . The goverment tried to make illegal things legal. They ignore the fact that there is a given treatment to prisoner of war. The US government tried to justify torture. Alberto R. Gonzales who was the
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Located in Cuba Guantanamo Bay served for the U. S as a prison for illegal detention. The U. S by combating the war on terror at Guantanamo Bay is doing something unconstitutional. The main reason the U. S decided to use Guantanamo was after 9/11 in an attempt to fight the war on terror. The use of Guantanamo goes back to the Spanish civil war‚ and even when Cubans were sent to this prison by Castro. Guantanamo also is currently in debate on its closing. Guantanamo Bay was first discovered in 1494
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Guantánamo Bay repression camp‚ moreover called Gitmo‚ Guantánamo Bay confinement camp [Credit: Kathleen T. Rhem/U.S. Division of Defense]U.S. imprisonment office on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base‚ arranged on the bank of Guantánamo Bay in southeastern Cuba. Created in stages starting in 2002‚ the Guantánamo Bay confinement camp (every now and again called Gitmo‚ which is in like manner a name for the oceanic base) was used to house Muslim aggressors and suspected terrorists got by U.S. powers in
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the Guantanamo Bay prison before his term is over in early 2017. During his presidency thus far‚ the number of detainees decreased from 238 to 91. Approximately 10 are on trial in military commissions and 35 are cleared for and pending their release to other countries (The Washington Post). The Executive Order – Closure of Guantanamo Detention Facilities was released on February 23‚ 2016 by President Obama. There are four main constituents in the White House Plan (1) to Transfer 35 detainees to
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Years of controversy and debate have surrounded Guantanamo Bay‚ a United States military base that has been used as a detention facility for accused foreign terrorists since January 2002 (Kaplan 2005) following the September 11 terrorist attacks. The facility holds around 500 to 600 detainees at any given time‚ and most of these are‚ or are thought to be‚ members of known and dangerous terrorist organizations which are direct threats to the United States’ government and its citizens‚ such as al Qaeda
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Because Guantanamo Bay is completely controlled by the U.S. but not actually a part of the United States‚ laws including any regarding human rights ceased to apply there (Friedman 82). According to Ardiente‚ this may be what justified military personnel or others working there to interrogate the way they did. Military doctors have admitted to giving information about detainees’ mental health in order to use it for cooperation of manipulation; the Pentagon has denied such claims (Ardiente 2).
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