“[That the] increasingly draconian reality at Guantánamo has occurred during the tenure of Barack Obama, a man who based his very election in part on a pledge to close the prison, is a tragic irony. It also represents a moral failure on the part of Obama’s liberal supporters who excoriated George W Bush for his operation of the camp, but have remained largely acquiescent with President Obama’s entrenchment and intensification of his predecessors policies.”
— Glenn Greenwald, Obama promised to close Guantánamo. Instead, he’s made it worse.
