Guantánamo Bay’s jail got here to infamy all over the George W. Bush management no longer just for having been deliberately opened “out of doors of U.S. and global law” (by way of Vox), however because of confirmed torture methods performed on-site — “enhanced interrogation,” as the euphemism went. These strategies, hired against the intended “worst of the worst” of alleged terrorists (by means of The Washington Post), had been described by means of detainee Majid Khan in 2021: “suspended bare from a ceiling beam for lengthy sessions, doused again and again with ice water to keep him wakeful for days … having his head held beneath water to the level of near drowning, handiest to have water poured into his nose and mouth when the interrogators let him up … overwhelmed, given pressured enemas, sexually assaulted and starved” (by the use of The Guardian).
Countless exposés let the American public know what used to be occurring, and when Barack Obama took place of job in 2009, he swore to close the complete factor down. Now, President Biden is announcing the same. But first, Gitmo should release its ultimate prisoners. Release, on the other hand, involves a shockingly complicated, multi-organization, red-taped evaluation machine (Departments of Defense, State, Justice and Homeland Security, and so forth), a blindingly ironic twist given how casually people were at the beginning tossed in (WBUR even has photos). The Trump management, it should be famous, blocked unlock after free up.
Is it any surprise, then, that a Guantánamo Bay gift shop filled with Frisbees, hoodies, beer koozies, and the rest comes throughout as tone deaf and absurd at very best, and morally repugnant at worst?
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