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Naomi Wolf on razing Guantanamo to the ground.

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Naomi Wolf:

Naomi Wolf is an author and essayist whose works have appeared in The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She also speaks widely to groups across the country.

Her first book, The Beauty Myth, was an international bestseller. She followed it with Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st Century; Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood; Misconceptions, critique of pregnancy and birth in America; The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot; and Give me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.

Wolf is also co-founder of the Board of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization devoted to training young women in ethical leadership for the 21st century. She is a graduate of Yale University and completed her graduate work at New College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

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Wolf: We, you know, sees you from a bounty hunter or we put you in a shipping container where you almost suffocate, we chain you to the floor, you defecate on yourself, we put you in cages, we threaten your family, we torture you, we attach electricity to your genitals, we hang you from the ceiling, we tell you that you’re never getting out, we strip you through process. And now, six years later, you’re released. Do we owe them something? I wish every church and synagogue in this country was asking prisoners these questions, do we owe something? I think we owe them a great, great deal. And the first thing we owe them is apology and the second thing we owe them is to dismantle Guantanamo and raze it to the ground and set up a marker on it like [IB] and the third thing we owe them is the reinstatement of the rule of law in Habeas Corpus in every single place that we’re responsible for people around the world including here at home.