Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents detainees.
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"According to my clients, there has been a ramping up in abuse since President Obama was inaugurated," said Ghappour, a British-American lawyer with Reprieve, a legal charity that represents 31 detainees at Guantanamo.How do you stop this and make sure it never happens again? Prosecute these thugs, something Obama seems unwilling to do.
"If one was to use one's imagination, (one) could say that these traumatized, and for lack of a better word barbaric, guards were just basically trying to get their kicks in right now for fear that they won't be able to later," he said.
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For once I agree on this. If it's true that they're doing this kind of thing now, when they've had the clearest possible messages from the top of the administration that it's not acceptable - there's no way they can claim the Patriotic Zeal Defence - then they really should be prosecuted.
And we don't want to see a rerun of Abu Ghraib, where a few GIs got slammed up to placate the media. There's an officer in charge at Gitmo - probably an admiral of some kind - and they should be answering for what goes on there.
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