[2ndDivisionVet]

Just like Jimmy and the Panama Canal!!

[Smokin' Joe]

If he raffled it off, he might be able to pay the debt down a smidgin...

[Carl Vehse]

Traitorobama could give Florida to Castro and Traitorcongress would do............................ nothing.

[JennysCool]

Cuba would just turn it into a prison for dissidents. Maybe that’s what Obama wants.

[onedoug]

He has a little less than a year left in his term, in which to create one hell of a lot of mischief...none of it in America’s best interests. And the so-called “conservative” House and Senate have signaled their intentions to not do a damned thing to stop him.

[LeoWindhorse]

It is not this prick’s base to give back . F-ing usurper . How long is our Mil going to put up with this ass ? He is not worth their oaths

[bluejean]

Cuba can have him. Maybe they won’t let him leave. Throw him in Gitmo!

[tallyhoe]

Pretty soon!! I knew what he was up to several years ago.. When he announced closing GITMO!!! I knew it was to give it back to the Communist!!!

[DoughtyOne]

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Does the law matter?

[Ciexyz]

If he doesn’t, Hillary will.

[353FMG]

Could be worse — he could give Gitmo to ISIS. The beach is perfect for executing Christians.

[faithhopecharity]

I’d be willing to give it to Cuba so long as it includes O inside it

[stylin19a]

cripes...Castro has cashed one rent check - $4,085 - by mistake in over 50 yrs. approx. 2.7 million is due.

[JLS]

I wondered about that too.

[SoFloFreeper]

Uh, yes. Remember: he hates the three Cs: Christianity, the Constitution, and capitalism.

All of Valerie’s actions (or inactions) are designed to denigrate at least ONE of those.

[Jimmy Valentine]

The lease was written for 99 years and has expired. We are effectively on a month month tenancy. He could very well give it back. My bet is that he will.

[scrabblehack]

I was going to say yes but dang, it's not so clear. Obama definitely has wiggle room under the abandonment clause and then under the modification/abrogation clause.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/dip_cuba001.asp

Until the two contracting parties agree to the modification or abrogation of the stipulations of the agreement in regard to the lease to the United States of America of lands in Cuba for coaling and naval stations signed by the President of the Republic of Cuba on February 16, 1903, and by the President of the United States of America on the 23d day of the same month and year, the stipulations of that agreement with regard to the naval station of Guantanamo shall continue in effect. The supplementary agreement in regard to naval or coaling stations signed between the two Governments on July 2, 1903, also shall continue in effect in the same form and on the same conditions with respect to the naval station at Guantanamo. So long as the United States of America shall not abandon the said naval station of Guantanamo or the two Governments shall not agree to a modification of its present limits, the station shall continue to have the territorial area that it now has, with the limits that it has on the date of the signature of the present Treaty.

[DoodleDawg]

Other than the prison what do we use it for?

[Jim Noble]

We hold Guantanamo by a lease, based on a 1934 treaty. The treaty recognizes that the US base sits on sovereign Cuban territory. We've faithfully made the payments (to the Swiss Embassy in Havana) every year since 1959, but the Cuban government has not accepted them. The two parties have not discussed the status of the US base because (until now) they have not had diplomatic relations.

I would imagine that the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the Navy could order the evacuation of the base without implicating any Constitutional issues and without repudiating the treaty.