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  Guantánamo Bay prison camps turn 10

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• Stinky prison camp standoff over

  Stinky prison camp standoff over

  Credit a combination of peer pressure and guard cajoling for the end of a stomach-wrenching summertime protest inside the Pentagon’s maximum-security prison in southeast Cuba.

• Ten years after 9/11, our ignorance leaves us vulnerable

  Ten years after 9/11, our ignorance leaves us vulnerable

  I joined the U.S. military after law school to help my country defend itself against the threat of Islamic extremism. My final assignment in my eight years in the Air Force was as a war-crimes prosecutor in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. With access to our nation’s most intimate secrets, I shuttled between Guantánamo and the Pentagon from the summer of 2007 to the winter of 2009. I learned many lessons, but on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the most important lesson I can share is the most alarming: After so many years and so much sacrifice, nothing has changed.

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  The cost to house a captive at Guantánamo Bay is $800,000 per year, far in excess of other federal or state lockups.