The British detainee built on this idea, accessed his inner-Aesop and wrote a fable, "Colonel Bogdan Has No Nose," about the man who basically ran Guantánamo for a number of years.
Not only has Stafford Smith seen first hand the inside of the prison, he's also maintained relationships with former detainees and built relationships with those currently on hunger strike.
Throughout his campaign, Barack Obama consistently called for a new detainee policy built around the closure of the prison camp and the return to the fundamental principles that have guided our justice system for centuries.
That includes Kuwait, a key US ally that has been lobbying for the return of its two remaining detainees and has built a still unused rehabilitation center to peacefully reintegrate them.
"Some force was used with a core group of detainees who had built barricades and actively resisted attempts to secure compounds, including threatened use of weapons and improvised weapons," it said.
And it is that environment that sets the conditions for interrogators to work successfully and to gain valuable information from detainees because they have built a relationship of trust, not fear".
As this suggests, it was already clear that the most notorious and frightening destination for political detainees was the concentration camp built by Himmler at Dachau, in Bavaria.
American-held detainees are kept at a newly built, high-tech detention center in Parwan, adjoining the sprawling American military base at Bagram.
At the hearing, Mr. Gates said he had asked for $50 million in supplemental financing in case a facility needed to be built quickly for the detainees.
By January, General Quantock said, he hoped to start moving detainees to a new facility being built in Taji, a few miles north of Baghdad.
