Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto

“Guards get combat pay, just like troops in Afghanista­n, without the risk of being blown up. Some commanders get to bring their families to this war-on-ter­ror deployment­. And each captive gets $38.45 worth of food a day. The Pentagon detention center that started out in January 2002 as a collection of crude open-air cells guarded by Marines in a muddy tent city is today arguably the most expensive prison on Earth, costing taxpayers $800,000 annually for each of the 171 captives by Obama administra­tion reckoning. That’s more than 30 times the cost of keeping a captive on U.S. soil…” ~ http://www­.nationofc­hange.org/­cost-house­-captive-g­uantanamo-­bay-800000­-132085665­0

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