WASHINGTON - The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), a partner of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, has released a package of policy recommendations focused on shuttering the Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) detention facility,reports PennToday.
“The arrival of the first detainees to Guantánamo on January 11, 2002, ushered in one of the darkest and most ignominious chapters in U.S. history,” says Finkelstein.
“Yet 20 years and roughly eight billion dollars later, we still have not achieved justice for the victims of 9/11, and we have tarnished the moral authority of the nation and distorted the rule of law.
The CERL Working Group draws together some of the greatest experts in national security law and the law of armed conflict in the country.
Its nuanced recommendations provide a path by which the Biden administration can realize its stated goal of closing the Guantánamo Bay prison and restoring integrity to U.S. detainee treatment and policy.”
Of the 13 recommendations, nine call for action from the executive branch and four from Congress.
