[wvns] Romney Calls for Doubling Guantanamo Population

Romney calls for doubling Guantanamo population
Nick Juliano
Tuesday May 15, 2007

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Romney_calls_for_doubling_Guantanamo_population_0515.html#comments

Debating the treatment of foreign detainees at Tuesday night's debate,
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he thought the US should
"double" the number of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

In the same exchange, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani noted again
his service in New York following the Sept. 11 attacks and said he
would support interrogators using a wide range of means to elicit
confessions from suspected terrorists. Moderator Chris Wallace asked
if Giuliani would support the use of waterboarding -- a controversial
interrogation tactic some say is torture because it makes detainees
believe they are drowning.

"Whatever they can think of," Giuliani said.

Romney said suspected terrorists need to be kept off American soil and
he supported the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" with the
approval of the president.

Critics say too many detainees are in Guantanamo without trial and
some have called for shutting down the facility, Romney noted. A
report conducted last year based on an analysis of defense department
data found that 55 percent of Guantanamo detainees were not found to
have participated in hostilities against the US and only 8 percent
were found to be al Qaeda members.

Romney's solution called for ramping up detention efforts at the
military base on Cuba's coast.

"We ought to double Guantanamo," he said.

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