The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on a meeting of former Secretaries of State:

Five former U.S. secretaries of State said Thursday the next president should move quickly to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

That single act would improve America’s dismal reputation in the world immediately, agreed Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell.

The five former secretaries, who served under Presidents Nixon, Ford, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush, were at the University of Georgia for a roundtable discussion billed as “The 16th Report of the Secretaries of State,” which offered “bipartisan advice to the next administration.” Kissinger, Baker and Powell all served Republican presidents. Albright and Christopher served Clinton, a Democrat.

Powell, who was in office when the notorious prison opened in Cuba, was the first Thursday to call for it to be shuttered. The most recent holder of the office on the stage, Powell served the current president from 2001 to 2005.

“Our image abroad has dropped significantly,” Powell said. He put some of that blame on his former boss.