In fact, DeSantis still calls Guantanamo a "terrorist detention facility", even though back in 2006, the year he was there, an analysis of official documents found that the great majority of the Guantanamo prisoners were innocent men, imprisoned only because of mistaken identity or because they had been sold to the US for bounty money. Regardless of these facts, DeSantis advocated keeping Guantanamo open in his 2016 testimony before the Subcommittee on National Security, in which he claimed that all detainees were "hardened and unrepentant terrorist[s]", whose release "risks harming America's national security"...
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