U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative: Publications, Events and MoreProgram-Related content, mainly for RSS feedGuantanamo: The Bigger Picture- March 17, 2008 The U.S. base at Guantanamo has been called many things. The "gulag of our time" (Amnesty International General Secretary Irene Khan, May 2005). "The key strategic intelligence platform in the war on terror" (Charles Stimson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, January 2007). The "legal equivalent of outer space" (unnamed Administration official). The right place for "the worst of a very bad lot" (Vice President Dick Cheney,...http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2008/guantanamo_bigger_picture_6900 |