Six years into his promise to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, officials say President Obama is finally moving to significantly reduce the population of the prison, with hopes to release 64 detainees approved for release in the next six months.
These detainees have been approved for release for years, but in many cases there is no place to actually send them. US officials say the administration is in talks with myriad countries trying to get them to take some in.
If President Obama actually follows through, this would be the most detainees he’d have released from Guantanamo in a single year in his entire administration.
Still, it would be less than half of the 132 detainees still held at the facility, so even if the president finally gets around to releasing people approved for release, he’d have another 68 detainees being held with no specific end in sight.
"#3, #145, #146, and #253, you're all free to go. We will arrange to transport you home free of charge." – signed, President B.H. Obama.
That's all it takes- no 'hoping to free more prisoners'. You've already proven you will use a signing order to do whatever you want, so take action this time and make it so with a stroke of your pen.
Why not send them to whatever country they're actually from?
Release them all and make the US look better after the whole torture debacle. Now that would have been a reasonable response after the torture report was released instead of that pathetic Hollywood/DC conspiracy of stupidity.
Gitmo — A most perfect way to terrorize all of our working-class
Cuba would take them all in a flash, so would Venezuela, Bolivia, Russia and Iran. But then, Empire USA would have to come up with a new way to exhaust our emotional capital and not hardly could anything be quite the horror. Take that night when three inmates disappeared into the top-secret section, only to have their lifeless being put into body bags with the CIA claming that all three committed suicide in less then two hours.
Trickle down justice — A twelve year agony
Releasing one a month, surely a most perfect way to keep burning up the emotional capital of our public for another twelve years.