Why is the Guantánamo Bay prison still open?

[dexter]

In 2002, the US opened a prison at its naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The 9/11 attacks had occurred just months before, and the US was capturing hundreds of men in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It wanted a place to hold and question them. So the Bush administration opened Guantánamo and claimed that it lay outside of US and international law.

The detainees didn’t have to be charged with a crime to be imprisoned and the US could hold them as long as they’d like. By 2003, there were nearly 700 men imprisoned in Guantánamo, but there was a backlash from around the world. When Barack Obama took office in 2009, he pledged to close Guantánamo.

But politics quickly got in the way. He was able to decrease the population but faced legal challenges. Ultimately, no president has been able to close Guantánamo because once something is created outside the law, it's impossible to bring it back inside the law.

 

[zectech]

Ask Obama, winner of the "nobel peace prize"

The MIC runs the show in Washington. Why close torture sites in foreign countries when your nation is built on that.

There are torture sites inside the US, that is for those who disappear. Gitmo is for high profile court cases to torture enemies of the state or innocent Muslims.

Most Guantanamo detainees are innocent: ex-Bush official​

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/most-guantanamo-detainees-are-innocent-ex-bush-official-1.804550