According to a story by the NY Times, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates argued to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
He has argued that an legal proceedings held at the facility would look illegitimate. He told President Bush and others that it should be shut down as quickly as possible.
He has argued that an legal proceedings held at the facility would look illegitimate. He told President Bush and others that it should be shut down as quickly as possible.
Mr. Gates’s appeal was an effort to turn Mr. Bush’s publicly stated desire to close Guantánamo into a specific plan for action, the officials said. In particular, Mr. Gates urged that trials of terrorism suspects be moved to the United States, both to make them more credible and because Guantánamo’s continued existence hampered the broader war effort, administration officials said.
The article sites that both U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and Vice President Cheney both opposed the plan.
Personally I think it would be helpful for the U.S. to close Gitmo. It has created a tainted view of the way America treats prisoners of war. Trying those held at the facility in the United States, would probably stream line the process. It has taken years to accomplish the trials in Cuba and now we may be able to complete the trials or at least start it.
What do you think?
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