“In December 2001, faced with the problem of where to house prisoners as the Taliban fell, the [Bush] administration alighted on the idea of holding them at Guantanamo Bay, a naval base the U.S. had leased from Cuba since 1903. As [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld put it on December 27, 2001, ‘I would characterize Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as the least worst place we could have selected.’ “
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 104