Remember when a newly inaugurated President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Jan. 22, 2009 requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within a year? Or when the president used his State of the Union address in January 2015 to renew his pledge to close Gitmo, saying that he would not relent in his determination to shut it down? Or when he announced this summer that the White House was in the “final stages” of drafting a plan to close the terrorist detention center in Cuba?
The clock is ticking on Obama’s presidency, and in the administration’s rush to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba, President Raul Castro has said the U.S. should return the Guantanamo Bay military base to Cuban sovereignty, resulting in a so-far fruitless search for an American site to welcome the terrorists.
The president at a fundraiser this week noted that it was the seventh anniversary of his election, and today he said that he’ll announce his plan to close Gitmo “soon.”
WH says @POTUS will "relatively soon" release latest plan to shut Gitmo detention facility. Urges Congress to "remove obstacles" to shutdown
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/Rschrim/status/662357805765165057
@markknoller @penelopesire (snort) "remove obstacles"
I'm thinking he means two legged, rational folks.
— Hazel BR-549 (@PavlovzCat) November 5, 2015
@markknoller @POTUS Didn't he say that during his 08 campaign
— Griffin Lahre (@GriffinLahre) November 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/jtidyman/status/662363832963084288
@markknoller @POTUS Send them to Alcatraz. Let @NancyPelosi & @DianneFeinstein cater their meals. Maybe they can get swimming lessons .
— S.E.Logar (@s_logar) November 5, 2015
@markknoller @POTUS moving them to Chicago?
— justlistening (@justlistening18) November 5, 2015
While America waits patiently for the president’s plan to close Guantanamo Bay, rest assured that he’s not letting other important business slide. Seven post offices now have names thanks to his mighty pen.
Pres Obama signs 12 bill into law including names for 7 Post Offices and a bill limiting the term of the Librarian of Congress to 10 years.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 5, 2015
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