Sessions visits Guantanamo

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited Guantanamo Bay on Friday in a show of support for the prison he has called a “perfectly acceptable” place to detain new terrorism suspects, as opposed to holding them in the U.S. and having his Justice Department try them in civilian courts.

Sessions traveled to the military detention facility in Cuba with his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats, to gain “an up-to-date understanding of current operations,” Justice Department spokesman Ian Prior said. It was Sessions’ first trip there since becoming attorney general. receive millionssparked anger among many Canadians who consider him a terrorist. Opposition Conservative leader Andrew Scheer called the decision “disgusting.”Scheer accused Trudeau of rushing to give Khadr the money so that Speer’s widow would not have her claim for the money heard in court.

The widow of Speer and another American soldier blinded by the grenade in Afghanistan filed a wrongful death and injury lawsuit against Khadr in 2014 fearing Khadr might get his hands on money from his wrongful imprisonment suit. A U.S. judge granted them $134.2 million in damages in 2015.

Lawyers for the Speer family and the injured soldier, Sgt. Layne Morris, filed an application in Canadian court last month with the hope that any money paid to Khadr would go toward the widow and Morris.

Khadr was the youngest and last Western detainee held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay. The ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada found that Canadian intelligence officials obtained evidence from Khadr under “oppressive circumstances,” such as sleep deprivation, during interrogations in 2003, and then shared that evidence with U.S officials.

JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS 2015 Canada has apologized and paid an $8 million settlement to Omar Khadr over his treatment while at Guantanamo.