From the WSJ Law Blog, A little less than a year ago, when President Obama set a one-year deadline for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, it seemed to many like a realistic goal. But the wind-down has been anything but smooth. Members of Congress have objected to efforts to bring the detainees to the [...]
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Why President Obama Will Not Close Guantanamo Bay
As regular readers of Dreadnaught will recall, President Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay within one year. Then the president learned that it may not be so easy to close. Congress then opposed the closing and withheld the necessary funds and limited the president’s ability to close GTMO. Now, in a recent WP article, there [...]
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