Think Progress » Powell: Close Guantanamo Now, Restore Habeas

[E]very morning I pick up a paper and some authoritarian figure, some person somewhere, is using Guantanamo to hide their own misdeeds,” Powell said. “[W]e have shaken the belief that the world had in America’s justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open… We don’t need it, and it’s causing us far more damage than any good we get for it.

If only he’d had this sort of common sense before this whole mess he helped get us into.