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Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep the Guantánamo Bay prison camp open, reversing the policy of the Obama administration.
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Trump said he had directed the defence secretary, James Mattis, "to re-examine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay". He added that he expected that "in many cases" captured terrorists would be sent to the camp.
The Trump executive order instructs Mattis, in consultation with the secretary of state and other officials, to deliver a new policy on battlefield detentions, "including policies governing transfer of individuals to US Naval Station Guantánamo Bay" within 90 days.
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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order to Keep Guantánamo Bay Open
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday February 02 2018, @03:31AM
In Obama's defense:
1. His administration did manage to release a large percentage of the prisoners there. The population went from something like 500 to less than 100.
2. A lot of those who are still there were refused re-entry by their home countries. Yemen in particular is guilty of this, accounting for something like 4/5 of the prisoners still stuck in Gitmo, although part of the problem is that they're in a civil war and the government that the US recognizes is losing that fight badly.
3. The Republicans in Congress tried everything they could to stop him, such as defunding the office in the State Department that was trying to get them out.
It wasn't all roses, though: Another part of Obama's plan, which Republicans refused, was to build a super-secure prison back in the US mainland and move the really dangerous guys there, but still never give them a trial. That's an obvious 5th Amendment problem ("No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", and notice that it doesn't say "No citizen" but "No person").
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.