US State Department's Guantanamo envoy resigns [View all]
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US State Department's Guantanamo envoy resigns
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - 11:33
Washington: The State Department envoy responsible for negotiating prisoner transfers from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is resigning, officials said on Monday, even as President Barack Obama is promising a stepped-up push to close the facility.
The surprise announcement of Clifford Sloan’s departure followed a flurry of detainee repatriations and resettlements, though officials at the State Department and White House had made clear their frustration with the slow handling of such moves by outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
Sloan assumed the post in July 2013 and the State Department said he was stepping down and returning to his Washington law practice after finishing an 18-month commitment.
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“I’m going to be doing everything I can to close it,” Obama told CNN in an interview broadcast on Sunday, renewing a pledge he made to shut the internationally condemned prison when he took office nearly six years ago.
He said keeping the prison open “continues to inspire jihadists” around the world and is “wildly expensive.”
But he faces obstacles posed by the US Congress, not least of which is a ban on the transfer of prisoners to the US mainland.
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