Cliff Sloan

The road to closing Guantánamo is clear and well lit. We are now approaching the 13th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo detention facility. Imprisoning men without charges for this long — many of whom have been approved for transfer for almost half the period of their incarceration — is not in line with the country we aspire to be.

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Cliff Sloan, a lawyer, was the State Department’s special envoy for closing Guantánamo until Dec. 31.