Posted on 01/20/2017 6:53:16 AM PST by Dave346
The Department of Defense announced Thursday that four more prisoners held at the military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are being transferred out, leaving the prison’s population at 41 as President Obama leaves office.
One inmate is being transferred to Saudi Arabia, while the other three are going to the United Arab Emirates, CNN reported. This is likely to be Obama’s last transfer of inmates from Guantanamo before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office at noon on Friday. Trump has pledged to keep the military prison open and “load it up with some bad dudes.”
When Obama entered the White House in January 2009, 242 inmates were being held at Guantanamo. Closing the facility was one of Obama’s key pledges during his presidential campaign in 2008. However, the White House admitted this week that the prison would remain open after Obama leaves office.
“At this time, I don’t anticipate that we will succeed in that goal of closing the prison,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said on Tuesday. “But it’s not for a lack of trying, I assure you.”
Trump has been adamant against transferring prisoners from Guantanamo, especially in Obama’s final days in office. Trump cites how some of the inmates who have been released from the detention facility to other countries have gone back to rejoin terrorist groups.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has said that roughly 30 percent of former Guantanamo detainees have rejoined terrorist activities or are suspected of doing so.
Anyone not understand now why it is dangerous to allow an usurper into office?
It was illegal to transfer them stateside and some of them, like KSM, are simply too dangerous to release.
He was never going to be able to close it.
Nor should he.
We need a detention facility like it somewhere and Gitmo is perfectly situated.
But he did not do the big names. Hillary did not get one. Maybe late this morning?
> Will Hillary be allowed conjugal visits from Huma?
How does conjugal visitation work from adjoining cells?
41 jihadis × 41 rounds of .45 Auto sounds more cost-effective to me.
Feed what’s left to the sharks.
MASA
Because yoga.
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