1. The New York Times
The prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba … mocks American standards of justice by keeping people imprisoned without charges … As of Tuesday, 100 of the 166 inmates are participating in a hunger strike against their conditions and indefinite detention. If Barack Obama is serious about moving toward closure, there are two steps proposed by the American Civil Liberties Union ... He could appoint a senior official "so that the administration's Guantanamo closure policy is directed by the White House and not by Pentagon bureaucrats" … and he could order Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel to start providing legally required waivers to transfer detainees who have been cleared. New York
2. The Guardian
Guantanamo still stains every country that colludes in its continued existence, including the UK ... Indeed it weakens co-operation with allies. And it still serves as a recruitment tool for extremists. A country that fails to try those accused of planning or committing terrorists acts in its civilian courts is a society that admits defeat. A country that detains people without charge because it knows that any charges would be thrown out of a proper court is no different, in its behaviour to these inmates, from dictatorships ... It has taken a mass hunger strike ... to bring this issue to a head. The situation inside the prison is unsustainable, and it is long past time for all of America's politicians to admit it. London