Whose Afraid of Habeas Corpus?
While Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee use Guantanamo Bay as a cheap applause line, other Republicans are addressing the issue with the gravity it deserves. During a recent debate, Romney said, “I want [the detainees] on Guantanamo, where they don’t get the access to lawyers they get when they’re on our soil. I don’t want them in our prisons, I want them there. Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo.” And if we do so, maybe Governor Huckabee, who recently opined, “most of our prisoners [in U.S. jails] would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo,” has some ideas how we could fill it. With all that demagoguery going on, former Secretary of State Colin Powell entered the debate on Meet the Press. “If it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow, but this afternoon,” said Powell. “And I would not let any of those people go. I would simply move them to the United States and put them into
