Closing Guantanamo Bay

    Last week, President Obama ordered the suspension of all trials at Guantanamo Bay and signed an executive order to close the detention center within a year, but he acknowledged that the process will be complicated. We talk with JOANNE MARINER of Human Rights Watch and SCOTT SILLIMAN who teaches at Duke Law School about options for trying, releasing and detaining Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Listen to the mp3

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