White House says expects Guantanamo transfers announced before Jan. 20

[DonViejo]

Tue Jan 3, 2017 | 3:00pm EST

The White House said on Tuesday it expects additional transfers of prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay military prison to be announced before President Barack Obama leaves office on Jan. 20.

"I would expect at this point additional transfers to be announced before January 20," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters when asked about a message on Twitter by President-elect Donald Trump earlier on Tuesday saying "There should be no more releases" from the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Last month a source close to the matter said Obama planned to transfer as many as 18 more prisoners from Guantanamo, nearly a third of the remaining 59 at the facility where the United States has held terrorism suspects since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guantanamo-idUSKBN14N1QX

[underpants]

1. Leave 1

Let it be a fine example of the complete waste of money and illegality of the war on terror.

[rgbecker]

2. Obama has been persistant on this

Even with no support from Republican congress and little support from Democratic members. I wish he would just let them all loose but this news warms my heart. America broke every international rule and law when Bush W. opened that facility to put away, 9forever, apparently0, unconvicted humans taken prisoner with little evidence that they were any different from a local gang banger working the streets of any US city. and alas, those who actually may have been involved in the 9/11 attacks were tortured in such a way that any so called confession is as unreliable as those confessions from the Central park Five kids arrested then finally set free.

[HassleCat]

4. You mentioned our shame.

The idea that Democrats would not work hard to remove this shameful millstone from around our neck makes me ill.

[gratuitous]

3. 59 men remain in unconstitutional detention

This is a black stain on America, one that will be on us forever. Trimming the number down to 41 does not ameliorate this crime against humanity.