Cat@ponder.cat to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo.www.commondreams.orgexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1428arrow-down10cross-posted to: politics@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1428arrow-down1external-link'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo.www.commondreams.orgCat@ponder.cat to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square40fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@sh.itjust.works
minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·12 days agoThen make them be the ones to block it from being shut down. Not try to do it right before leaving office. And maybe not sign the bill to upgrade it… https://www.courthousenews.com/obama-signs-bill-expanding-guantanamo/ Plus not like he even closed it with his closing EO https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/obama-gitmo-plan-reaction-219696
minus-squareDashi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·12 days agoThat first article quotes Obama trying to close it. From the sounds of it congress attached keeping the base open as a rider to another defense funding bill. That’s a common tactic I think
Then make them be the ones to block it from being shut down. Not try to do it right before leaving office.
And maybe not sign the bill to upgrade it…
https://www.courthousenews.com/obama-signs-bill-expanding-guantanamo/
Plus not like he even closed it with his closing EO
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/obama-gitmo-plan-reaction-219696
That first article quotes Obama trying to close it. From the sounds of it congress attached keeping the base open as a rider to another defense funding bill. That’s a common tactic I think