The Controversy of Gitmo Bay rose during Bush's Presidency, as the CIA's program of INTERROGATION enhanced, and the use of TORTURE on terrorist suspects serves as a violation of U.S. and international laws.
For example, the Bush administration proclaimed that suspects were not entitled of the protection of the Geneva Conventions, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled otherwise in Hamdan V. Rumsfeld stating that they are entitled to some of its protection.
HUMAN RIGHTS became a major controversy in the handling of these prisoners; because they are being sent to a different country to be tortured and are being prisoned without court hearings or being charged. The U.S.'s reputation as the nation that disciplines Human Rights laws is at sake for as long as these illegal actions continue at Guantanamo Bay.
The importance of the prison's status to MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICTS is that a major number of the detainees are of Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters, and plenty of other terrorist suspects are of Arab or Muslim heritages. Example: 40 percent of prisoners are from Yemen.
Furthermore, the handling of these prisoners affects the tangible relationship between the U.S. and the Middle East.
President Obama took a step in January 2009 to better the relationship with the muslim world and to better the U.S.'s reputation and ordered to ban tortures and to close Guantanamo within a year time.
While closing the prison might raise fear of return to those who intent on carrying on terrorist attacks, Obama has said that they are trying to come up with a process that follows the law but also does not release people with TERRORIST INTENTIONS.
How safe is this move towards America's security?
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