{"id":5869,"date":"2014-06-10T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2014-06-10T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:30:09","slug":"prisoner-swap-is-an-opportunity-to-again-debate-the-closing-of-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/5869\/prisoner-swap-is-an-opportunity-to-again-debate-the-closing-of-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner Swap is an Opportunity to Again Debate the Closing of Guant\u00e1namo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ralph E. Stone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

June 10, 2014<\/p>\n

It is unfortunate that the debate about the prisoner swap – U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for 5 Taliban officials – disregards or at least minimizes the fact that prior to the swap, there were 149 still imprisoned at Guant\u00e1namo Bay Detention Camp, of which 78 are still imprisoned after being cleared for release and 38 the U.S. has said it lacks evidence to prosecute but claims they are too dangerous to release. Guant\u00e1namo has a reputation as a place of torture and indefinite detention, and is a continued international embarrassment. It is time for President Obama and Congress to agree on a plan to quickly release these prisoners or bring them to a speedy trial, and then close Guant\u00e1namo.<\/p>\n

The U.S. occupation of Guant\u00e1namo dates back to the passage of the Platt amendment<\/a> to a U.S. Army Appropriations Bill of 1901, which gave the U.S. the right to intervene militarily in Cuban affairs whenever the U.S. decided such intervention was warranted. Cubans were given the choice of accepting the Platt Amendment or remaining under U.S. military occupation indefinitely. The U.S. has intervened militarily in Cuban affairs at least three times. U.S. intervention endowed Cuba with a series of weak, corrupt, dependent governments until the triumph of the Cuban revolution in 1959. In 1903, the U.S. used it to obtain a perpetual lease of Guant\u00e1namo Bay, a blatant example of U.S. gunboat diplomacy. The current Cuban government, as do I, consider the U.S. presence in Guant\u00e1namo to be illegal and the Cuban-American Treaty to have been procured by the threat of force in violation of international law.<\/p>\n

January 11, 2014 marked the twelfth anniversary of the Guant\u00e1namo Bay Detention Camp, a U.S. extrajudicial detainment and interrogation facility of the U.S.located within Guant\u00e1namo Bay Naval Base.\u00a0 After the Justice Department advised that the Guant\u00e1namo Bay Detention Camp could be considered outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, the first twenty captives arrived at Guant\u00e1namo on January 11, 2002.<\/p>\n

In 2013, President Obama promised to recommit himself to his failed promise to close Guant\u00e1namo Bay prison although such action still faces opposition by both parties. However, the Obama administration has never exercised the power it has had since 2012 to waive, on a case-by-case basis, most of the restrictions lawmakers have imposed on transferring detainees. There is still opposition, however, to transferring them to U.S. soil. But there are some prisoners deemed too risky to release but not feasible to prosecute because torture was used. These prisoners are essentially being held as prisoners of war.<\/p>\n

Considering our pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan and the weakening of al-Qaeda, it is time to release all prisoners held at Guant\u00e1namo and return Guant\u00e1namo back to Cuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is unfortunate that the debate about the prisoner swap – U.S. Army Sgt. 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