The Least Worst Place: How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison

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The tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo Bay, along with their direct superiors, were unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond. - ;Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane, and illegal by most international standards, it has been seen by many as a testament to American hubris in the post-9/11 era. Yet until now no one h. Read more... Content: Acknowledgments; Guide to People; Guide to Acronyms; Preface; 1 World Gone Wrong; 2 The First Team; 3 The Void; 4 Filling the Void; 5 The Bad Guys First; 6 The Petting Zoo; Photos; 7 The Caribbean Hilton; 8 The General and the Chaplain; 9 Missing Pieces; 10 A Political Animal; 11 Towels into Turbans; 12 Bowing Out; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Abstract: The tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo Bay, along with their direct superiors, were unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond. - ;Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane, and illegal by most international standards, it has been seen by many as a testament to American hubris in the post-9/11 era. Yet until now no one h