Powell says he would shut Guantanamo prison
Powell says he would shut Guantanamo prison
Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune
Published June 11, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that he would close the U.S. military prison for enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "this afternoon" because it has become a major problem in "the way the world perceives America."
"Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like a military commission," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Powell said he would move the detainees at Guantanamo to the U.S. and put them into the federal legal system.
Powell was the only member of President Bush's first-term "war Cabinet" who argued against the detainee policies that did not abide by the Geneva Conventions in the treatment of enemy combatants.
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Items compiled from Tribune news services.
Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune
Published June 11, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that he would close the U.S. military prison for enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "this afternoon" because it has become a major problem in "the way the world perceives America."
"Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like a military commission," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Powell said he would move the detainees at Guantanamo to the U.S. and put them into the federal legal system.
Powell was the only member of President Bush's first-term "war Cabinet" who argued against the detainee policies that did not abide by the Geneva Conventions in the treatment of enemy combatants.
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Items compiled from Tribune news services.
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