People Instantly Noticed This One Thing Behind Obama During Gitmo Speech

“Barack Obama is a longtime ideologue who wants to make good on his campaign promise to close Guantanamo”, Hayes said.

“It drains military resources”, Obama said.

The White House is now assessing whether it can close the facility via Executive Order.

While 35 of the current 91 detainees would be sent to foreign detention centres, his plan did not name the specific USA facilities the remaining 56 detainees would be transferred to, and only outlined broad cost figures.

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA – JUNE 27: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by the U.S. Military prior to transmission.) A watch tower is seen in the now closed Camp X-Ray which was the first detention facility to hold “enemy combatants” at the U.S. Naval Station on June 27, 2013 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

However, Congress is firmly against the move and is likely to block it.

The Guantanamo prisoners were rounded up overseas when the United States became embroiled in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001, attacks on NY and Washington.

“We’re down under a hundred inmates at Guantanamo”. Closing Gitmo has been at the top of the president’s priority list for some time, but he is facing objection from some lawmakers concerned about relocating terror suspects onto American soil. “As a nation, if we don’t deal with this now, when will we deal with it?” “I am very clear-eyed about the hurdles to finally closing Guantanamo”, Obama promised, adding that the politics are “tough” but this would have happened years ago “if it were easy”.

Sanders’ statement noted he was one of only three senators to vote in 2007 against barring the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to America; then-Sen.

“After seven years, President Obama has yet to convince the American people that moving Guantanamo terrorists to our homeland is smart or safe”, Mr. Ryan said.

The President said in his signing statement that his Administration may ignore the restrictions on the transfer of detainees.

“If certain detainees no longer pose a continuing significant threat, they may be eligible for transfer to another country”, said Obama.