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“… WE HAVE COMPROMISED OUR MOST PRECIOUS VALUES.”
case in 2008, arguing many of
the same motions we’re arguing now,” Ruiz said. “And I think
folks that have been around here
for a while would tell you not
much has changed at all.”
During his first campaign for the
White House, Obama pledged to
end an ugly chapter in American
history and prove to the world that
the United States could safeguard
the country from terrorism without sacrificing its commitment to
freedom and liberty.
“In the dark halls of Abu
Ghraib and the detention cells of
Guantanamo, we have compromised our most precious values,”
Obama declared in a speech on
Aug. 1, 2007. In one of his first
acts upon taking office in January 2009, the president, flanked
by admirals and generals, directed the military to close the
prison camp here within a year.
A mobile
guard tower
stands over
a camp for
Chinese
Uighur
detainees.