Can One Man Redeem A Nation?

Tom Junod: On December 7, 2006, a new jail opened in Guantánamo. It was, and is, called Camp 6. Guantánamo is located at the arid eastern end of Cuba, plagued with iguanas and surrounded by the endless indigo desert of the Caribbean. The detention center there, opened in 2002, had always been a provisional thing, defined by its infinities of razor wire and its guard-towered skyline. Camp 6 was different. Built by the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root to duplicate a jail in southeastern Michigan, it was made of concrete as gray as wastewater, and its facade was not only windowless but featureless, a dungeon for an era of diminished expectations. Camp 6 was built for…