{"id":69492,"date":"2016-12-21T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69492"},"modified":"2016-12-21T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:24:00","slug":"obama-to-release-17-guantanamo-detainees-before-leaving-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69492","title":{"rendered":"Obama to release 17 Guantanamo detainees before leaving office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it doesn&#8217;t look like the president will make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo detainee facility during his eight years in office. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/19\/us\/politics\/guantanamo-bay-obama.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a> says that he&#8217;ll release 17 or 18 more detainees before his term in office ends, but there will still be a few dozen behind bars there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By law, the Pentagon must notify Congress 30 days before a transfer, so the deadline to set in motion deals before the end of the Obama administration was Monday.<\/p>\n<p>By late in the day, officials said, the administration had agreed to tell Congress that it intended to transfer 17 or 18 of the 59 remaining detainees at the prison; they would go to Italy, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. If all goes as planned, that will leave 41 or 42 prisoners in Guant\u00e1namo for Donald J. Trump\u2019s administration. Mr. Trump has vowed to keep the prison operating and \u201cload it up with some bad dudes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Closing Guantanamo made a nice campaign promise in 2008, but it was much more difficult to actually accomplish &#8211; even for a Nobel Prize winner. Of course, President Bush got the idea of keeping prisoners offshore from his predecessor when President Clinton filled Guantanamo with Haitian refugees to keep them from getting &#8220;dry feet&#8221; on US soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it doesn&#8217;t look like the president will make good on his promise to close the &hellip; <a title=\"Obama to release 17 Guantanamo detainees before leaving office\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69492\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama to release 17 Guantanamo detainees before leaving office<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}