http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-mum-on-working-with-mccain-to-close-gitmo/article/2566291White House mum on working with McCain to close Gitmo
By Susan Crabtree | June 15, 2015 | 3:49 pm
The White House on Monday declined to say if it's working with Sens. John McCain and Joe Manchin to permanently close the terrorist detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, just days after it released another six detainees.
McCain, R-Ariz., said last week that the administration — specifically Lisa Monaco, the White House's counter-terrorism adviser, and Pentagon officials — have told him they are working on a plan to send to Congress to close the facility. The Senate version of the defense authorization bill contained new restrictions on shutting the facility and transferring detainees to other countries.
It also included new language authored by McCain and Manchin that would allow the prison to be shut down if the White House can lay out how it would handle some of the outstanding legal issues surrounding such a closure, such as how it would handle future extremists the military captures.
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