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Showing Original Post only (View all)Obama's big push on Guantanamo [View all]
President Obama's push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is going into overdrive, with more detainee transfers in the last two months of 2014 than in the previous three years combined.
Since the Nov. 4 elections, Obama has released 22 detainees, in sharp contrast to the period from 2011 to 2013 inclusive, when only 19 were released.
In the first six months of 2014, he had released only six detainees from the facility in Cuba including the five members of the Taliban who were swapped for prisoner of war Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
With less than two years left in office, the president appears to be going full throttle, promising in a December interview on CNN "to do everything" he can to fulfill his 2008 campaign promise of shutting down Guantanamo, despite congressional opposition.
Since the Nov. 4 elections, Obama has released 22 detainees, in sharp contrast to the period from 2011 to 2013 inclusive, when only 19 were released.
In the first six months of 2014, he had released only six detainees from the facility in Cuba including the five members of the Taliban who were swapped for prisoner of war Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
With less than two years left in office, the president appears to be going full throttle, promising in a December interview on CNN "to do everything" he can to fulfill his 2008 campaign promise of shutting down Guantanamo, despite congressional opposition.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/228350-obamas-big-push-on-guantanamo
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This is good news but what has changed? Some here have been suggesting these actions
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#4
I am afraid what you are saying is true. He didn't do it before because he believed he could
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#9
What? I was agreeing with you. You said he no longer cares if he pisses off Congress which
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#12
Some said all along that he could do this and were disparaged by those that defended him
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#18
I am a Democrat. I do not blindly follow any leader. I hold all my elected officials accountable.
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#22
I don't disagree. It was a political decision and not the fact that his hands were tied as many
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#23
Forgive me I am getting confused. Your OP says "President Obama's push to close the Guantanamo Bay
rhett o rick
Jan 2015
#36
K&R and yet another example of how President Obama can never win with some people.
great white snark
Jan 2015
#28