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The White House announced Friday that President Biden hopes to shut down the prison at the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a tall task that the Obama administration failed to do nearly a decade ago.
"We are undertaking an NSC process to assess the current state of play that the Biden administration has inherited from the previous administration, in line with our broader goal of closing Guantanamo," she said. "There will be a robust interagency process to move forward on this, but we need to have the right people seated to do this important work."
Former President Barack Obama said the detention center went against American values and was a "stain on our broader record" when he argued for the prison's closure in 2016, NPR reported.
Later that same year, then-President-elect Donald Trump vowed to keep the installation open.
"We're gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me," Trump said in 2016.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 09 2021, @09:13PM
Laughably, Bush wants to close it down for the wrong reasons. He can't admit that it was simply WRONG from the word go.
Trump? That was just more foolish shit from the reality show guy. You notice that it wasn't expanded, and his "bad dudes" never arrived.
Obama? Excuses. He made a showing, and said the right words for the media. Now, in his third term, maybe he'll actually have his puppet shut the place down?