Five New Reasons (and One Old One) Why We Must Close Guantanamo Now

In an interview with former CBS news anchor Dan Rather revealed this week, former Guantánamo prisoner Lakhdar Boumediene -- the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court ruling grating habeas corpus rights to prisoners at Gitmo -- claimed that torture is still going on under Obama. “Nothing change in Guantánamo,” he said. “They torture me in the Obama time more than Bush.”

Reason #2: Prisoners Are Still Committing Suicide

This week brought news that a Yemeni prisoner, who once starved himself to 86 pounds to protest his detention, was found dead in his cell on Monday in an "apparent suicide," more than seven years after being brought to Guantánamo in February 2002.