Is Gitmo a day spa?

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 6/14/2008 4:25:00 AMvar addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';

A former Army JAG officer who was a member of the Guantanamo prosecution team says the detention facility in Cuba is not the concentration camp the media portrays, but a place where detainees actually receive more privileges than many American prisoners.                                          

Major Kyndra Rotunda has the unique perspective of having been face to face with some of the terrorist suspects incarcerated at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. She recently wrote Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials. Rotunda does not think it would be wise for the military to shut down the facility and bring the detainees to the United States.
 
"Bringing them here to the United States would just invite a whole new host of problems," she argues, "the least of which is that they may end up trying to claim asylum if we bring them here in the United States. I also think it would just be a huge target for any terrorists who are looking to attack again within the U.S.," Rotunda contends.    
 
Rotunda says Gitmo is hardly a concentration camp. "On the average, the detainees have gained about 15 pounds since they've been in Guantanamo Bay. Many of them have eyeglasses that they've [never] had before. And also most of them live in open bays. They get up to 12 hours of recreation time. There's an extensive library. They can take classes," Rotunda explains.
 
The Gitmo detainees, according to Rotunda, are treated much better than U.S. citizens in American prisons.

I should hope it's nice there.

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