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Exclusive: Biden aides launch review with eye to shutting Guantanamo prison - White House
Reuters ^ | 2/12/2021 | Reuters

Posted on 02/12/2021 8:38:52 AM PST by Onthebrink

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration has launched a formal review of the future of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, reviving the Obama-era goal of closing the controversial facility, a White House official said on Friday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History
KEYWORDS: 911; guantanamo; joebiden; terrorism

1 posted on 02/12/2021 8:38:52 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

I wouldn’t mind seeing it closed as long as they execute every prisoner there first.


2 posted on 02/12/2021 8:40:10 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Onthebrink

Just chatter. They will hire up a dozen folks at $150k a year and will come back to say there really isn’t an alternate plan that works.


3 posted on 02/12/2021 8:40:35 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Onthebrink

What is controversial about it? The fact that upgrades were done to accommodate a 74 year-old white woman?


4 posted on 02/12/2021 8:41:17 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Onthebrink

This is prelude to returning Gitmo to Cuba.......................


5 posted on 02/12/2021 8:52:21 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: Onthebrink

Inmates to be resettled as refugees in Minnesota?


6 posted on 02/12/2021 9:01:15 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Red Badger

They’re going to rename it and put us in.

Of course this doesn’t preclude your prediction.


7 posted on 02/12/2021 9:21:48 AM PST by tsomer (that)
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To: Onthebrink

And give them a front row in the pathway to citizenship.


8 posted on 02/12/2021 9:32:06 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

That’s a heck of a good idea. Wait, didn’t bammy promise to close it too? He had 8 years and never got around to it. But yeah, long past time to close it - after putting the remaining terrorists in the ground.


9 posted on 02/12/2021 9:53:08 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: tsomer

Exactly. They are making room for MAGA supporters, the real “terrorists”.


10 posted on 02/12/2021 10:05:21 AM PST by joshua c (Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv, natl name brands)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

you beat me to it, put them up against the wall, then close it down.


11 posted on 02/12/2021 1:15:12 PM PST by allwrong57
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