MSNBC The ReidOut January 12, 2022 00:59:00
>> provide the process whereby guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now. we are not, as i said, in the inauguration, going to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals. >> but he quickly ran into opposition from both parties and a lot of logistical issues with congress literally passing a bill preventing him from transferring any detainees to the united states and blocking the funding to close the gulag that came to be known as gitmo. by the end of obama's administration, 197 prisoners had left guantanamo, but the prison remained open. when trump took over...