11-01-24 Why is Guantanamo Bay Detention Center Still Open? // ¿Por qué es la Bahía de Guantánamo Centro de Detención sigue abierta? // 为什么关塔那摩湾拘留中心还开着吗？

How Congress Helped Thwart Obama's Plan to Close Guantanamo
Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers: "Two years after the newly minted Obama administration moved to undo what had become one of the most controversial legacies of the George W. Bush presidency by ordering the closure of the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a trove of State Department documents made public by the website WikiLeaks is providing new information about why that effort failed. Key among the factors, the cables suggest: Congress' refusal to allow any of the captives to be brought to the United States."
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