Congresswoman Chellie Pingree last night returned from a one-day tour of the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Maine's Democratic 1st District representative traveled with a bipartisan group of members of the House Armed Services Committee to inspect the facilities at the prison, where more than 170 detainees are currently being held, two years after president Barack Obama pledged to close down the facility. It was, Pingree says, her first visit to Guantanamo Bay.
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