“No amount of sugar coating can cover up the reality of what we have done at Guantanamo Bay,” said the “Last Week Tonight” host in a segment advocating the permanent closure of the controversial U.S. detention center in Cuba.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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