4 Years After Vow to Close Gitmo, Why Has Obama Signed NDAA Bill Barring Transfer of Its Prisoners?
January 8, 2013
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org - Four years after vowing to close Guantánamo and 11 years after it opened, President Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act barring the use of federal funds to transfer detainees from the notorious prison to U.S. soil. Of the 166 prisoners remaining at Guantánamo, 86 have been cleared for release. Obama says he signed the NDAA's renewal despite his objections to the Guantánamo provisions and maintained in a signing statement the right to override them, but Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, says Obama's avowal amounts to no more than a "press release."
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