White House Pushing for Quick Release of Gitmo Prisoners. Is Ash Carter Pushing Back?
Half of the Gitmo detainees have been cleared to leave — if the defense secretary signs the papers to actually let them go.
By The Daily Beast
Published on August 10, 2015
Half of the Gitmo detainees have been cleared to leave — if the defense secretary signs the papers to actually let them go.
The White House wants to quickly cut the number of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. One man is standing in the way: President Obama’s Defense Secretary, Ash Carter. Carter and the White House are increasingly at odds about how to whittle down the number of detainees held in Guantánamo Bay, hampering the administration’s push to close the detention center by the end of its term.
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