“It’s been clear that the detention center at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security,” Obama said from the Roosevelt Room at the White House. “It undermines it.”
There are 35 detainees currently eligible for transfer. The president’s plan calls for an accelerated review of the remaining 56 to determine if they pose a threat and will also be transferred, or if they will be returned to their home countries.
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