NY Times on Gitmo Op-Ed: 'It Was an Easy Call to Publish'
The New York Times said Monday’s op-ed by a Guantanamo Bay inmate “was an easy call to publish,” stemming early criticism by those on the conservative right.
“The value of today’s piece by the Guantanamo detainee is obvious and it was an easy call to publish it,” Eileen Murphy, a Times spokeswoman, told us in an email. “Guantanamo is run by the United States and these hunger strikes are happening. Readers have a right to know, in fact we would argue, they need to know about them.”
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