CNN CNN Newsroom May 23, 2013 18:48:00
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, und...