Trump signs order that will keep Guantanamo Bay military prison open and suggests more detainees...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post

Trump signs order that will keep Guantanamo Bay military prison open and suggests more detainees might be sent there

A new executive order, issued as President Trump gave his State of the Union address, rescinds a 2009 order in which President Barack Obama promised to close the facility in Cuba.

Sixteen years after the first prisoner arrived, 41 detainees remain at Guantanamo. Of the more than 700 prisoners who have been held there since 2002, only a handful have been charged with a crime and even fewer tried.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revoking-2009-order-moves-to-keep-guantanamo-open-indefinitely/2018/01/30/c45a0b02-061b-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html

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Trump signs order to keep Gitmo open

BY KATIE BO WILLIAMS - 01/30/18 09:34 PM EST

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The order does not make explicit that the Trump administration will immediately begin sending new detainees to the controversial prison, but preserves the option for the president who on the campaign trail called for it to be loaded up with some bad dudes.

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How to handle individuals captured fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has proved a legal and security quandary for both the Trump and Obama administrations. Although concerns about allowing terror fighters to return to the battlefield have hovered over the debate, both conservative and liberal detention experts say sending new inmates to the prison is a shaky legal proposition.

The Tuesday order also calls for Defense Secretary James Mattis to give the White House recommendations within 90 days as to how the U.S. should handle individuals captured fighting in connection with an armed conflict, including policies governing transfer of individuals to U.S. Naval Station Guantnamo Bay.

In order to hold a prisoner as an enemy combatant, the government must be able to prove that the detainee is a fighter for an enemy force with whom the U.S. is in a state of armed conflict.

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http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/371527-trump-signs-order-to-keep-gitmo-open

[PJMcK]

1. There's a new wing at the prison

It's called "Democrats."

[CanonRay]

2. Probably means us.

[DBoon]

6. We can continue the Bernie/Hillary wars inside a concentration camp

like the German Communists and Social Democrats continued theirs

[The Mouth]

14. I shouldn't have laughed at that...

[dbackjon]

3. Stock it with the Trump Crime Organization

[barbtries]

4. this nightmare never ends.

is there enough room for all the trumps and most of the republicans in congress? i'm all for just locking them up and leaving them there to fend for themselves.

[jmowreader]

7. Do what they did in The Dirty Dozen

Drop off twelve Republicans and a truckload of lumber, and tell 'em they get to sleep inside once they're done building their barracks.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Send Dick Cheney down there to test the waterboards.

[Solly Mack]

8. And the sickness continues.

Not that that is surprising.

[Rollo]

9. Will it have a presidential suite?

In a Traitors' Wing?

[iluvtennis]

10. In my opinion, his plan is to put all the folks that ICE is rounding up there. What an IDIOT

[Grassy Knoll]

11. So Stupid, Trump Is Juggling Broken Glass And Chainsaws...

[Still In Wisconsin]

12. Hey, the man likes torture, what can he say?

It makes him soooo TOUGH!

[DeminPennswoods]

13. Lots of room for Republican

traitors there!

[Orsino]

15. A modern Republican isn't going to get rid of an offshore extralegal black hole.

That thing is like a GOP theme park of everything they love.