"There's no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don't think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It's easy to put tents in Florida. But they're putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why."
And what would have happened if he did it sooner? They would have kept stalling out out? I believe no matter when he did it out would have needed approval
That first article quotes Obama trying to close it. From the sounds of it congress attached keeping the base open as a rider to another defense funding bill. That’s a common tactic I think
This was issued in 2009. It’s obstructed (by the same institutions not obstructing Trump right now), and Obama slowly releases inmates over the next couple of years. What you’re linking to there is a “final” plan in 2016 to close it after the prison population of Gitmo had been reduced from 800 to 91.
A final plan that never happened because Trump took office.
Obama signed an executive order to close it, but Congress and the legal system slowed it down.
Where is congress and the legal system now?
Oh come on you know damn well where it’s at.
in the shitter
“They go low, we go high”
Only took him 7ish years to get around to it though. Probably something to have done sooner?
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/02/23/president-obamas-plan-close-Guantanamo-about-closing-chapter-history
And what would have happened if he did it sooner? They would have kept stalling out out? I believe no matter when he did it out would have needed approval
Then make them be the ones to block it from being shut down. Not try to do it right before leaving office.
And maybe not sign the bill to upgrade it…
https://www.courthousenews.com/obama-signs-bill-expanding-guantanamo/
Plus not like he even closed it with his closing EO
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/obama-gitmo-plan-reaction-219696
That first article quotes Obama trying to close it. From the sounds of it congress attached keeping the base open as a rider to another defense funding bill. That’s a common tactic I think
He did start the process sooner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13492
This was issued in 2009. It’s obstructed (by the same institutions not obstructing Trump right now), and Obama slowly releases inmates over the next couple of years. What you’re linking to there is a “final” plan in 2016 to close it after the prison population of Gitmo had been reduced from 800 to 91.
A final plan that never happened because Trump took office.