Joe Biden Hatches Plan To Close Guantanamo Bay
June 9, 2021
Written by Carmine Sabia
It was an obsession for former President Obama that he was never able to do, but now Joe Biden has his sights set on doing what his former boss could not.
Biden is planning to close the United States detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some of the worst enemies of our nation are being held, NBC News reported.
President Joe Biden has quietly begun efforts to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, using an under-the-radar approach to minimize political blowback and to try to make at least some progress in resolving a long-standing legal and human rights morass before the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
After initial plans for a more aggressive push to close the facility — including rebuffed attempts to recruit a special envoy to oversee the strategy — the White House changed course, sources said. The administration has opted to wait before it reaches out to Congress, which has thwarted previous efforts to close the camp, because of fears that political outcry might interfere with the rest of Biden’s agenda.
Not only does he want to close it, but he wants to do it quietly to avoid people being as furious as they should be.
“They don’t want it to become a dominant issue that blows up,” a former senior administration official who is involved in the discussions on closing the base said of Biden officials. “They don’t want it to become a lightning rod. They want it to be methodical, orderly.”
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