baher: thank you, amy.nk michael saw from the very beginning what everyone else perceived possibly as a necessary compromise. what he saw is the possibility of creating a prison outside the law that was a marker of lawlessness, and therefore authoritarianism, th would single out, in this case, the most recent enemy, muslims. not unlike what he saw 10 years before with the demonization, exclusion of black haitian refugees. what he saw is t connection between militarism and war, and domestic forms of authoritarianism and repression, and that was a key to his intervention guantanamo because bad things happen in dark places. not only bad things to the human beings locked up there, whose families are clamoring for understanding about what happened to them, but bad things happen to our institutions, our democratic institutions, massive executive power, the dismissal of oversight by courts and the public. that intervention was critical to open up guantanamo and expose the lies, tture and incompetence of the projec