We’re Still Living In Guantánamo’s Shadow

We’re Still Living In Guantánamo’s Shadow

Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel

Via The Nation and TomDispatch.

In 2013, journalist Carol Rosenberg astutely labeled them “forever prisoners.” And those detainees are hardly the only enduring legacy of Guantánamo Bay. Thanks to that prison camp, we as a country have come to understand aspects of both the law and policy in new ways that might prove to be “forever changes.”

Here are eight ways in which the toxic policies of that offshore facility have contaminated American institutions, as well as our laws and customs, in the years since 2002.

Read the full article here on The Nation and here on TomDispatch.

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Karen Greenberg