New evidence of abuse at Guantanamo as Obama's deadline for closing facility passes

Shortly after taking office in 2009, President Obama signed executive orders laying out a timetable to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within the year. The deadline was set for today, but the facility remains open. The Obama Administration has also announced that around 50 of the nearly 200 remaining detainees may be held indefinitely without trial.

Documented use of torture and religious abuse have taken place at the facility in the course of its 8 years of operation. This week, Harpers Magazine reports that the deaths of 3 detainees in 2006, may have occurred due to torture and interrogation. The US government had previously called the deaths suicides.

We're joined by journalist Andy Worthington, author of the book, The Guantanamo Files, and a co-director of the film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo.

Link to "The Guantánamo 'Suicides': A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle" by Scott Horton: http://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368

Link to Andy Worthington: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/