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Biden Promised to Close Gitmo. Instead, He’s Upgrading It.

Published January 5, 2022

As the Biden administration moves to build courtrooms at Guantánamo prison, Shannon Vavra quoted Scott Roehm, Washington director: “There is a consensus that the commissions have failed—but they haven’t failed because of a lack of courtrooms,” Roehm said. “They’ve failed because they were never about justice.”

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Biden Promised to Close Gitmo. Instead, He’s Upgrading It.

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