Has Guantanamo Prison Made America Safer?

Has Guantanamo Prison Made America Safer?

On May 21, 2009, two American leaders, one a current president, the other a former vice president, stood before the world and gave two radically different answers to the same question: has Quantanamo Bay made America safer? While President Obama insisted that Guantanamo and the interrogations that took place there were the product of fear-mongering, Dick Cheney declared that closing the detention camp would be reckless and place Americans at great risk. Has Guantanamo made America safer? (Photo by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy, National Guard Bureau)

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