quade 4 #1 February 23, 2017 QuoteMatt Olsen: “Politics” Kept Guantanamo Open, “Not National Security” Matthew Olsen was appointed in 2009 to lead the Guantanamo Review Task Force, a commission established by President Barack Obama to review the case against every detainee at the U.S. detention center in Cuba. Under Olsen, the task force examined 240 detainees to determine whether to prosecute, release or hold them indefinitely. “No one should think that any of these decisions are entirely free of risk. That’s just not the way the world works,” Olsen says in the interview below. “But the question, on the other hand, is do we really want to continue to keep people forever in a prison in Cuba?” Olsen, who later served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, says Obama was right to want to close Guantanamo, but politics, “not national security,” got in the way. Source and more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/matt-olsen-politics-kept-guantanamo-open-not-national-security/?linkId=34781100 Worth a read.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
