Detention Nation: Migrants Behind the Wire at Gitmo

Part II: When senators visited Guantánamo Bay, they found migrants—not terrorists. What happened next reveals the power—and limits—of public oversight.

Guantánamo Bay, a U.S. naval base in Cuba, became infamous after 9/11 as the site of a detention camp where hundreds of men were held indefinitely without trial, many subjected to torture and “extraordinary rendition,” a practice in which detainees were secretly transferred to other countries for interrogation, often outside the bounds of U.S. law. Its …