DETROIT, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. detention center at Guantanamo in Cuba should be closed as quickly as possible, the U.S. Marine general who opened it said Thursday.
In an op-ed piece in the Detroit Free Press, Maj. Gen. Michael Lehnert, now retired, said the detention center should never have been built in the first place. He said he discovered the first detainees "had little intelligence value, and there was insufficient evidence linking them to war crimes."