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Eli Rosenberg 517 Views May 5, 2011

"There's going to be very little appetite for making Guantanamo a permanent shrine to the war on terror."

--Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, in a Wall Street Journal article about how both sides of the political spectrum have managed to draw political lessons about the military prison from Osama bin Laden's capture. More coverage of the issue here.

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