GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA – Hearings are underway in the United States Senate to assess what to do with the 240 detainees still behind bars at Guantánamo Bay, and what will become of the military tribunals and detention without trial that the Bush administration and a compliant Congress put into place. The US Congress is also debating what will happen to the detention camp itself, which was established in 2002 to house men who were allegedly “the worst of the worst,” in a setting deliberately framed by Bush attorneys as “legal outer space.”
发自古巴关塔那摩湾——美国参议院近日举行了一系列听证会，用以评估如何处理仍被关押在关塔那摩监狱的240名囚犯，而小布什政府及其控制的国会所设立的军事法庭和关押制度将何去何从，亦在讨论的范围。同时国会针对这所监狱自身的去向也进行了辩论。因为事实上，这所监狱就是小布什政府的法律顾问为了关押那些所谓“最穷凶极恶”的囚犯而故意设立的“法外之地”。