Discuss the use of torture, rendition, and military tribunals in dealing with suspected wrongdoers by the Bush and Trump administrations and the efforts by President Obama to close the prison and release suspects who have been held without charges or trial for 15 years.
Bush did a lot of shit by using the Unitary Executive concept that ironically the right was completely in agreement with in the Bush era but then use against Obama at the slightest turn of the wheel. We have controlled Guantanamo since the Spanish American war I believe so it wasn't a big deal to open a torture camp there to avoid having to give the accused real trials in the US court system. The blind sheik who was behind the first Trade Tower bombing in 1994 or so was indicted, tried and convicted in US Federal court and is now serving time somewhere "up the river". Our system worked under Clinton but then the Bush administration decided to break with all tradition by using torture, rendition to torture centers and military tribunals to deal with anyone even suspected of wrongdoing. Trump is using and building on that illegal policy. President Obama tried to close the prison and has released many of the suspects who have been held without charges let alone trial for 15 years.