AMERICA'S SHAME - NAT HENTOFF (WASHINGTON TIMES, JUNE 19): Would not even so stalwart a person as Rumsfeld not be desperate after being caged year after year in what lawyers for these Guantanamo prisoners have called "a legal black hole"?
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060619-123800-3287r.htm

CLOSING TIME AT GUANTANAMO - EUGENE ROBINSON (WASHINGTON POST, JUNE 20): Guantanamo has become shorthand for a whole litany of American excesses in George W. Bush's "global war on terror."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6061901236.html

SENDING SHAMEFUL SIGNALS - JAMES CARROLL (BOSTON GLOBE, JUNE 19): The time is long past for the disgraceful American prison to be closed.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial...ameful_signals/

WHY GITMO'S COMMANDER WAS DISAPPEARED (OR: THE SECRET GUARD DEN) (BAGNEWSNOTES, JUNE 20)
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/20...itmos_comm.html

HUMAN RIGHTS: WHERE IS THE U.S. - NANCY RUBIN (INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, JUNE 20): Our secret detentions, our extraordinary renditions, our torture memos that redefine how broken a body has to be to be labeled "tortured," our indefinite holding of prisoners without due process or even charges at Guantánamo and our special trial system for terrorist detainees have drawn almost universal condemnation.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/20/opinion/edrubin.php

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE - YVES ROUCAUTE (WALL STREET JOURNAL, JUNE 21): If America can sometimes make errors, the sort of anti-Americanism that drives the hysteria over Guantanamo is always in the wrong.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1150839251...ain_europe_asia
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A STANDARD FOR INTERROGATION: THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION STILL HAS NOT ADOPTED CLEAR RULES FOR QUESTIONING ENEMY PRISONERS -- OR RULED OUT CRUELTY EDITORIAL (WASHINGTON POST, JUNE 20): The United States should establish one set of rules for questioning all prisoners.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6061901351.html

WANTED: A SYSTEM OF JUSTICE -- IF U.S. FORCES CAPTURED OSAMA BIN LADEN TOMORROW, HOW AND WHERE WOULD HE BE TRIED? EDITORIAL (WASHINGTON POST, JUNE 21): The nation needs now, and will continue to need, a means to try some of the most fateful criminals of all time according to fair rules that bear the stamp of democratic approval: legislative enactment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6062001591.html

GUANTANAMO AS BACKDROP FOR BUSH'S TRIP TO EUROPE JONATHAN MORLEY (WASHINGTONPOST.COM, JUNE 21)
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/worldopinio...op_for_bus.html

CLOSE GUANTANAMO? YES, BUT KEEP IN MIND: IT'S NOT THE MAIN PROBLEM EDITORIAL (WASHINGTON POST, JUNE 22): The most urgent concerns of those pressing the Bush administration ought to be the closure of the CIA's secret facilities and the conversion of Bagram into an Afghan-only facility operated by the Afghan government.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6062101519.html

YOUR TURN: FORE! BAGNEWSNOTES (JUNE 21): Information on the film Gitmo -- The New Rules Of War by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh.
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/20..._turn_fore.html

BEYOND THE MULTIPLEX: THE DOCUDRAMA "THE ROAD TO GUANTÁNAMO," ABOUT THREE BRITISH MUSLIMS HELD AT GITMO, WILL HORRIFY YOU, UPSET YOU -- AND DRIVE YOU MAD - ANDREW O'HEHIR (SALON, JUNE 22)
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2006/06/22/btm/