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Published January 10, 2016 FoxNews.com

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday vowed that President Obama will close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility before his presidency ends in 11 months.

“He feels an obligation to his successor to close that, and that’s why we’re going to do it,” McDonough said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Sure we are.”

However, McDonough declined to answer whether Obama would use his White House powers to sidestep Congress and close the facility.

“The president just said he’s going to present a plan to Congress and work with Congress and then we’ll make some final determination,” McDonough said.

Obama has promised since the start of his presidency seven years ago that he would close the facility -- opened in the aftermath of 9/11 to get suspected terrorists off the battlefield.

The president has argued the facility has outlived its usefulness, including being too costly to keep open, an argument McDonough repeated on Sunday.

Congressional Republicans have led efforts to keep open the facility and stop the administration from releasing the detainees to Middle East countries, for fear they will return to terrorism.

Republicans and others are concerned that Obama will use executive orders to close the facility, on a U.S. Naval base, on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, like he tried to do with immigration and now with gun control issues when Congress has blocked his efforts.

“I’m not an ‘if when’ guy,” McDonough said when asked Sunday whether Obama will try the same tactic with Guantanamo. “I said we’re going to close it. (Obama) just said he’s going to present a plan to Congress to do that.”
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Incoming President Trump should announce it's re-opening, right at the inaugural podium on January 21, 2017 -- with obama sitting there watching!

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Incoming President Trump should announce it's re-opening, right at the inaugural podium on January 21, 2017 -- with obama sitting there watching!

It is not that simple. Obama's broader plan was always to return the Guantanamo to Castro. Obama is a far, far, far, leftwing radical, and he considers the base to be illegally occupied by America. That is what Obama's illegal unilaterally resuming relations with Castro was all about. This was always his plan from day one. Also, it will be just another way to weaken America's position in the world, which Obama enjoys doing.

If Congress does not check Obama, there may not be a base left to re-open.

Others have said it before me, but I will repeat it here. We should be very grateful that Obama is the laziest President the United States has ever had. It seems he is almost always either on vacation, or a party, or golfing. This is a good thing. In fact, it is the best thing about his whole term. If he had accomplished even half of the dastardly plans he had set for the U.S. and the world, we would be in a much worse position than we already are.

Gun ownership would be illegal, America would have virtually no military at all, Israel would no longer exist, the Muslim Brotherhood would control almost all the M.E. and North Africa, Cuba would own Guantanamo and all the terrorists there would be back on the battlefield, the Taliban would rule Afghanistan, Iran would control Iraq, and the list goes on and on and on.

But now we have to be on high alert. Because Obama has screwed off for most of his term, he now considers himself to be behind schedule. He is going to go crazy this year trying to get all of this done before he leaves, regardless of any silly 'laws', and regardless of what Congress or the American people want.

Obama does not now, and he never has, considered himself to be a 'representative' of America. He sees himself as America's Ruler, and he will never allow America in any form, to stop him from completing his mission.
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The main reason obama open ties with Cuba. He will give them Gitmo.
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