Headlines Versus Reality

The Headline: U.S. Military Plans Gitmo Legal Compound

The Reality: The U.S. military plans to break the law with these detainees. Taxpayer money will therefore be spent build this facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, to which no independent American observers can travel, so that the prisoners can be abused at will.


There are a lot of things you can say about the housing and treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. But the surest thing you can say about it is that it does not represent the American way.