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Why is Obama emptying Guantanamo Bay? (1 Viewer)

Two dozen Guantánamo detainees poised for release under Obama deals







White House has prepared to transfer 22 or 23 people to a handful of different countries, reducing the camp’s 80-strong population ahead of president’s exit






 
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According to US officials, the administration has deals in place to send approximately two dozen longtime Guantánamo detainees to about half a dozen countries.

While it is unclear if the transfers will occur in one wave, as with the April transfer of nine detainees to Saudi Arabia, there is an expectation that the departure of 22 or 23 men will occur by the end of July. There are currently 80 men detained at Guantánamo, the lowest number since the US opened the wartime prison in 2002.

All the detainees for whom US diplomats have secured arrangements to leave Guantánamo have been officially approved for transfer, either by a 2010 internal review process or through quasi-parole hearings known as Periodic Review Boards.

The US holds 28 detainees approved for transfer, so the men’s departure would nearly empty Guantánamo of such designated detainees, substantially clearing a backlog that has lasted years.

Officials spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, as not all of the foreign destination countries are ready to be identified. Furthermore, some of the transfer approvals have yet to receive certification by Ashton Carter, the defense secretary, as required by law, ahead of a notification to Congress.

The State Department’s envoy for closing Guantánamo, Lee Wolosky, pledged in January after a transfer of 10 detainees to Oman that the US would finish emptying Guantánamo of transfer-eligible detainees “by this summer”.

If the current deals go through, the US would be left with 57 or 58 Guantánamo detainees, the vast majority of whom are either involved in the military tribunals process or subject to insufficient untainted evidence to charge, while thought too dangerous to release.

The quasi-parole process may soon refill the transfer-eligible category with additional detainees.

All of the 42 detainees not currently before the military commissions or approved for transfer are eligible for hearings before the Periodic Review Board, a panel of US security-related agencies that decides by consensus to transfer or recommend continued detention. Ten of those detainees are awaiting rulings from the board.

Long criticized for its lethargy, the Periodic Review Board process has picked up its pace, holding hearings for 18 detainees since January. Four are scheduled over the next two weeks, including a 2 June hearing for Mohamedou Ould Slahi, whose abuse at Guantánamo is the centerpiece of an internationally bestselling memoir.



 

Persistent congressional opposition to permitting Guantánamo detainees to be tried or imprisoned on US soil has made the parole-and-transfer process the likeliest mechanism through which Obama can come close to accomplishing his long-thwarted goal of closing down Guantánamo.

That opposition comes annually through the defense authorization bill, which since 2011 has included a ban on transfers to the US. This year’s bill, which passed the House on 18 May, also restricts the transfers process by preventing the administration from transferring any detainee to a country subject to a state department travel warning – based on a standard far lower than a risk of terrorism or insurgency. It currently includes all of Europe.

The White House has threatened to veto the defense bill, citing the Guantánamo provisions, among other reasons. Yet such veto threats have become an annual ritual. Every defense bill since 2011 that Obama ultimately signed included Guantánamo detainee restrictions.

Transferring those detainees cleared by either the 2010 internal review or by the parole board will not close the Guantánamo detention center.

Instead, it will bring the prison’s population down to what administration officials tend to call an “irreducible minimum” by the time Obama leaves office in January.

That number is likely to include people whom the US continues to hold indefinitely without charge – one of the main practices that has reaped international infamy for Guantánamo, motivating Obama’s initial pledge to close it.
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They're all rehabilitated by now, ready to be repatriated to the Midwest where they'll sell insurance, coach hockey, etc.

 
Instead, it will bring the prison’s population down to what administration officials tend to call an “irreducible minimum” by the time Obama leaves office in January.

That number is likely to include people whom the US continues to hold indefinitely without charge – one of the main practices that has reaped international infamy for Guantánamo, motivating Obama’s initial pledge to close it.
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So his plan is to let the remaining prisoners spend their life there without charge?

 
Since its a publicity nightmare it doesn't really serve the purpose it was meant to. They'll keep the secret gulags still secret. 

 
TheAristocrat said:
Six-Cheese Lasagna

Ingredients

1 pound ground beef
1 pound bulk Italian sausage
1 jar (24 ounces) meatless spaghetti sauce
2 eggs, beaten
1 carton (15 ounces) ricotta cheese
1-1/2 cups (12 ounces) 4% cottage cheese
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup grated Romano or Asiago cheese
8 no-cook lasagna noodles
4 cups (16 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
6 slices provolone cheese, quartered

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, cook beef and sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in spaghetti sauce. In a large bowl, combine eggs, ricotta, cottage, Parmesan and Romano cheeses.

Spread 1-1/2 cups sauce mixture in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Top with four noodles. Spread 1-1/2 cups sauce to edges of noodles. Sprinkle with 2 cups mozzarella cheese. Top with ricotta mixture, provolone cheese and remaining noodles, sauce and mozzarella cheese.

Cover and bake 50 minutes or until a thermometer reads 160°. Uncover; bake 10 minutes longer or until cheese is lightly browned. Let stand 15 minutes before cutting. 

Freeze option:Cool unbaked casseroles; cover and freeze up to 3 months. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Preheat oven to 350deg;. Bake as directed, increasing time as necessary to heat through and for a thermometer inserted in center to read 165°. Yield: 12 servings.
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Please do a lobster recipe since Obama is emptying Guantanamo Bay. I'll bet it's loaded with them.

 
Taking 1/4 of something out is not emptying the thing.

These 22 are part of a group cleared to be transferred years ago.

The continuing existence of this prison is an international embarrassment.

 
2007

2009

2013

2016

Oliver showed a few weeks ago he says he is doing it every year. He does it his last year in office. I believe Clinton will face the scourge of the public not Obama. Trump will explode this all over the media and tear Clinton apart for being in the Obama Cabinet so she must think its a great idea. 

 
I want to point out around Minute #2 of the 2016 video he clearly states that he is bowing to pressure from other World leaders...that doesn't sound good to me. 

 
Alleged Bin Laden Bodyguard Transferred From Gitmo to Montenegro


A Guantanamo detainee once accused of being Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and planning to hijack airliners on 9/11 has been released and transferred to Montenegro, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi had been held at the U.S. naval base on Cuba for 14 years but never charged with a crime. A U.S. review board found in 2014 that the Yemeni national was no longer a threat to the nation and recommended he be transferred.

The Pentagon said it was grateful to Montenegro — a small European country looking to join NATO — for its "humanitarian gesture and willingness to support" efforts to close Guantanamo.

The transfer was "consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures," the Defense Department said in a statement.

Montenegro's government said al-Rahabi had applied for asylum and was not being detained. It said in a statement Wednesday that it had taken responsibility for al-Rahabi's "re-socialization" and "his return to his family."

Another Yemeni was transferred to Montenegro from Guantanamo in January. The pair would "eventually be free to choose the country they want to live in," the government said.

According to Pentagon documents, al-Rahabi was detained by Pakistani forces in Dec. 2001 and transferred to Guantanamo the next month on suspicion of being a former bodyguard for bin Laden. The documents also suggest he may have been related by marriage to the late al Qaeda founder.

The files allege al-Rahabi also received training for a planned mission to hijack airplanes in southeast Asia in an attack that was meant to be coordinated with 9/11 but never happened.

Al-Rahabi denied the allegations and said he had some contact with the Taliban while teaching the Quran in Afghanistan, according to the documents, an account the U.S. deemed to be "false."

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Great job, Congress:

President Barack Obama's advisers would recommend he veto a bill in the House of Representatives that prohibits use of funds to transfer individuals detained at the Guantanamo Bay military prison to the United States or any foreign country, the White House said on Tuesday.

The bill was introduced in the House and is making its way through Congress. It faces a tough battle in the Senate. Operation of the prison "weakens our national security by draining resources, damaging our relationships with key allies and partners, and emboldening violent extremists," the White House said in a release. 
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