imprison 166 people. almost a million dollars per prison. the department of defenseers mates that weust spend another $200 million to keep gitmo open at a time when we re cutting investments in education, in research here at home, and when the pentagon is struggling with sequestering budget cuts. as president i have tried to close gitmo. i transferred 67 detainees to other countries. before congress imposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other countries or imprisoning them here in the united states. these restrictions maybe no sense. after all, under president bush, some 530 detainees were transferred from gitmo with congress support.
almost $1 million per prisoner. and the department of defense estimates that we must spend another 200 million to keep gitmo open at a time here with cutting investments in education and research here at home and when the pentagon is struggling with sequester and budget cuts. now, as president, i have tried to close gitmo. i transferred 67 detainees to other countries, before congress imposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other countries or imprisoning them here in the united states. these restrictions make no sense. after all, under president bush, some 530 detainees were transferred from gitmo with congress support. when i ran for president
imprison 166 people. almost a million dollars per prisoner. the department of defense estimates we must keep another $200 million to keep gitmo open at a time when we re cutting investments in education and research at home and when the pentagon is struggling with sequester and budget cuts. now as president, i have tried to close gitmo. i transferred 67 detainees to other countries before congress imposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other countries or imprisoning them here in the united states. these restrictions make no sense. after all, under president bush, some 530 detainees were transferred from gitmo with
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