Soon after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 the Bushadministration devel

Soon after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 the Bushadministration developed a plan for holding and interrogatingprisoners captured during the conflict. They were sent to a prisoninside a U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay on land leased from thegovernment of Cuba. Since 2002 over 700 men have been detained atGITMO. Most have been released without charges or turned over toother governments. In 2011 Congress specifically prohibited theexpenditure of funds to transfer GITMO prisoners to detentionfacilities in the continental United States making it virtuallyimpossible to try them in civilian courts. As of April 2012 169remained in detention at GITMO (Sutton 2012).