Obama's Gitmo
You know we live in interesting times when Helen Thomas is going after Barack Obama. Miss Thomas was asking the White House press secretary last week why detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan should not have the same right to challenge their detention in federal court that last year's Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush gave to Guantanamo's detainees. All Mr. Gibbs could do was interrupt and correct the doyenne of the White House press corps ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
I agree with Kenneth Sibbett that specifically banning torture makes all of the difference in the world, regardless of where these detainees are held. Gitmo is more than the place where their habeas corpus rights were violated. The article could have addressed that Gitmo is forever associated with the torture that took place there in a way Bagram is not. This too affects the decisions that are made.