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Abu Zubaydah: Torture's "Poster Child"

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Despite his constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," President Barack Obama refuses to bring the Bush officials who tortured Zubaydah and others to justice.

Donald Trump has pledged to keep Guantanamo open and advocates a resumption of waterboarding. Indeed, he promised a Trump administration would "bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding."

Hillary Clinton opposes waterboarding. She said torture is an "open recruitment poster for more terrorists," and "over the years, Guantanamo has inspired more terrorists than it has imprisoned."

Meanwhile, Zubaydah languishes at Guantanamo, with no hope of release.

Joseph Margulies, one of Zubaydah's lawyers, said his client is "the poster child for the torture program, and that's why they never want him to be heard from again."

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Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and a member of the National Advisory Board of Veterans for Peace. Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. See  (more...)
 

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