Retired top general and former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has come out swinging against the US detention facility in Guantanamo, Cuba. Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Powell pulled no punches:
"Guantanamo has become a major, major problem ... in the way the world perceives America and if it were up to me I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow but this afternoon ... and I would not let any of those people go. I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our federal legal system," Powell told NBC's Meet the Press.
"Essentially, we have shaken the belief the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like the military commission. We don't need it and it is causing us far more damage than any good we get for it," he added.
The US continues to hold around 380 suspects at the facility.
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