The Congress of the United States appropriates, and the president of the United States spends, more than $400,000 per day, seven days a week, to imprison people whom the government itself has deemed innocent. The US Court of Appeals has upheld the legality of this indefinite detention of the innocent, and the US Supreme Court has refused to review it.
The chance of ending this absurdity is just about zero.
That's not just because the $400,000-a-day facility is the Guantanamo prison camp, and it's not just because Congress would try to keep the president from closing the prison even if he wanted to, and it's not just because the president signed into law the NDAA that pretty much requires him to keep Guantanamo open - it's also because official US policy pretty much still supports everything that was done and continues to be done at Guantanamo.
Why Is Guantanamo Still Open?.
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