President Obama is considering using executive power to close the offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday.
Closing the detention center was part of candidate Obama’s promises in 2008, and shortly after taking office in 2009 he issued an executive order that the prison be closed within a year. In January Obama said in his State of the Union that 2014 “needs to be the year… we close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.”
Yet the prison remains open, currently holding 149 men, roughly half of whom have been cleared for release , the majority of whom may never be charged.
Thwarting a legislative route towards closure, which administration officials told the Journal the president prefers, is a 2010 Congressional ban on transfers of Guantamano prisoners to the United States for trial.
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