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In January 2009, President Obama signed executive orders directing the CIA to shut what remains of its network of "secret" prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantánamo detention camp within a year.[44] However, he postponed difficult decisions on the details for at least six months.On 7 March 2011, President Obama issued an executive order that permits ongoing indefinite detention of Guantánamo detainees.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 would have authorized indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, but enforcement of the relevant section was blocked by a federal court ruling in the case of Hedges v. Obama on 16 May 2012, a suit brought by a number of private citizens, including Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jónsdóttir.
The government sidestepped the ruling, however, saying "The government construes this Court's Order as applying only as to the named plaintiffs in this suit." As of November 2016, the detention center was in operation. However, President Obama announced the proposal of plans for the detention center's closure with all detainees being transferred to holding centers in the U.S.
originally posted by: Christosterone
The terrorists at Gitmo are terrifically bad people
originally posted by: Christosterone
If the morally bankrupt Attorney General Eric Holder couldn't find an excuse to free them then they were beyond even his amoral equivocating...
originally posted by: Christosterone
What do y'all think his reasoning is behind keeping it open in perpetuity??
originally posted by: Christosterone
Well, Obamas tenure as President of the United States concludes in a matter of months...and he never closed Gitmo despite his multiple [campaign] promises to do so...
Why are liberals so quick to point out republicans for not adhering to their campaign promises?
So to my liberal ATS friends, do y'all question why Obama has not fulfilled his multiple promises to close Gitmo??
What do y'all think his reasoning is behind keeping it open in perpetuity??