Obama to shut Guantanamo before he leaves office, says White House chief of staff

FOXNEWS ^ | Jan. 10, 2016

[PROCON]

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday vowed that President Obama will close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility before his presidency ends in 11 months.

"He feels an obligation to his successor to close that, and that's why we're going to do it," McDonough said on "Fox News Sunday." "Sure we are."

However, McDonough declined to answer whether Obama would use his White House powers to sidestep Congress and close the facility.

"The president just said he's going to present a plan to Congress and work with Congress and then we'll make some final determination," McDonough said.

Obama has promised since the start of his presidency seven years ago that he would close the facility -- opened in the aftermath of 9/11 to get suspected terrorists off the battlefield.

[combat_boots]

GITMO was not opened after 9/11.

[ErnBatavia]

I guess 0baMao doesn’t much give a sh*t about his “legacy” any longer....he’ll be a bad memory down the rabbit hole....and he’s got another year to shove it in and break it off; full steam ahead.

[himno hero]

He needs to be there with her!

[PROCON]

What is the justification to close Gitmo?

IMHO, if there are no more terrorists in Gitmo, by closing it, then it justifies in 0bama's pea-brained mind that America's not being mean to the nice muslims anymore.

And the muslims will love us and we'll all live in perfect harmony with unicorns and fairy dust.

[combat_boots]

We’re assuming there will BE a successor.

[Defiant]

Wow, you’re a diehard.

[Lurkinanloomin]

We have to find ways of preventing him from doing this

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Probably an impracticality. I have ethical problems with it, too.

Well, you give them a gun with some blanks as you push them out the chopper door. If they fire....

[dhs12345]

There ya go.

[Telepathic Intruder]

And constantly stirring the pot by perpetuating the complete myth that white Americans are a bunch of racists. He claimed he would improve race relations while actually setting them back.

[mtrott]

“He feels an obligation to his successor to close that”

Huh??? WTH? I wish he felt some, any, obligation to American citizens who will be put at risk by releasing these Jihadists. His successor will have plenty of protection.

[mtrott]

Congress should stop this and if needed tie it up in the courts until after Obama leaves office.

Too much hassle.

Need to conserve their energy for fighting Trump and Cruz.

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LOL!!! Got a chuckle out of that one.

[catnipman]

“Obama to shut Guantanamo before he leaves office, says White House chief of staff”

And do what, just turn all the terrorist scum loose?

BTW, this is in line with my believe that we ain’t seen nuttin yet from Obama. He’s gonna take the U.S.A. down with him during his last year at the helm with a scorched Earth policy that’s going to make Sherman’s march to the sea look like a cakewalk.

[PA Engineer]

"Once you come to terms that Obama's not on America's side, everything he does makes sense."

I think he also knows that is where he is going to end up. If he is a foreign agent then his confinement would come under military law in my opinion. The best location to place him is there with a military tribunal.

Look at all the destruction he has created. Look at all the deaths. He may ultimately rival Pol Pot with his actions in the middle east.

[Slambat]

“An Obligation to Donald Trump?”

“No. The article said “successor”.

Trump.

[Citizen Zed]

Organizing For America turns up the heat...

[jaydubya2]

I could never understand the lefts infatuation with closing gitmo.