Adopt a Guantanamo inmate?
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP Here’s an intriguing proposal from Belgium’s Anne-Marie Lizin, a prominent European critic of the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Lizin says that countries want to shut Gitmo down should take the prisoners off the United States’ hands themselves. But why not take this a step further and just pay Amnesty ...
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP
Here’s an intriguing proposal from Belgium’s Anne-Marie Lizin, a prominent European critic of the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Lizin says that countries want to shut Gitmo down should take the prisoners off the United States’ hands themselves.
But why not take this a step further and just pay Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Red Cross to actually operate Guantánamo or its equivalent? Then they could hire subcontractors like CACI to handle the interrogations, and provide any resulting information to the U.S. government. Surely, these organizations would be trusted to ensure that prisoners wuold be treated humanely.
Or better yet, draw up an RFP and open up the bidding process to anyone willing to adopt a Guantánamo prisoner. After all, the U.S. government outsources everything else nowadays. Why not this?
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