Is The Pentagon Blocking President Obama's Efforts To Close Guantanamo?

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Dec 29th 2015, 02:00

U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order regarding the closure of the military prison at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on his second official day as president at the White House in Washington in this January 22, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Larry Downing/Files

Reuters: Special Report: Pentagon thwarts Obama's effort to close Guantanamo

In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country. If they succeeded, the transfer would mark a small step toward realizing President Barack Obama's goal of closing the prison before he leaves office.

The foreign officials told the administration they would first need to review Ba Odah's medical records, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the episode. The Yemeni has been on a hunger strike for seven years, dropping to 74 pounds from 148, and the foreign officials wanted to make sure they could care for him.

For the next six weeks, Pentagon officials declined to release the records, citing patient privacy concerns, according to the U.S. officials. The delegation, from a country administration officials declined to identify, canceled its visit. After the administration promised to deliver the records, the delegation traveled to Guantanamo and appeared set to take the prisoner off U.S. hands, the officials said. The Pentagon again withheld Ba Odah's full medical file.

Update: Report: Obama scolded Pentagon chief on Guantanamo transfers (The Hill).

WNU Editor: Guantanamo prison is run by the U.S. military .... and President Obama is the Commander in Chief. He can do what he wants and/or orders .... and I am sure that if he felt that he was being blocked .... transfers/firings/dismissals will quickly follow suit. In fact .... if he was serious about closing Guantanamo he could have done it in 2009 - 2010 when the Democrats had super-majorities in both Houses, But he did not .... due to his own Party's pressure and worries on closing the facility. But the part of this Reuter's report that I found interesting was this ....

.... The Bush administration faced no political opposition on transfers and was able to move 532 detainees out of Guantanamo over six years, 35 percent of whom returned to the fight, according to U.S. intelligence estimates. The Obama administration has been able to transfer 131 detainees over seven years, 10 percent of whom have returned to the fight.

It looks like the Bush administration were sloppy in determininig who was going to return to the fight (or not).

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