In the panic after 9/11, the US swept hundreds of men into Guantánamo – most not terrorists at all – and built a system that could not admit its own failure, writes human rights lawyer Eric Lewis in this extract from his new book
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In the panic after 9/11, the US swept hundreds of men into Guantánamo – most not terrorists at all – and built a system that could not admit its own failure, writes human rights lawyer Eric Lewis in this extract from his new book
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