Graph showing how Democratic support for closing Guantanamo changed after Obama backed off

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69. Have you seen the bill that congress passed regarding the detainees at gitmo? If not, I suggest

you read it.
Additionally: Obama signed an executive order, ordering the closing of gitmo shortly after entering office.
In 2009 his first budget included funds to shut it down. Congress removed that from the budget and added an amendment that forbade the gov't in some way or another to release info requested by aclu.

His attempt to move the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, to federal court in Manhattan fell apart against local opposition and prompted Congress to pass a law barring the use of Defense Department funds for the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners

After that they passed ridiculous legislation that allowed the closing (still without funds) requiring "certification and guarantee" by Hagel and others. Basically an impossible thing to guarantee, still without funds. In 2012 The National Defense Authorization Act removed all the partisan rigged -to -fail pieces were removed, which is what now clears the way. Also, many were released but most of those there now are from Yemen. When the underwear bomber was found to have been trained in Yemen, there was a real concern of security and recidivism. They have a new President and he seems to be serious about Al-Quaeda so it's less likely these guys will be back in a few months to blow us up.

When Obama announced a few days ago he was going to try again to close gitmo the quote from congress was: House leaders quickly signaled they would seek to scuttle any proposal by the president to shut down the detention facility and move selected prisoners to the U.S. for trials in federal courts.
He can't snap his fingers and make it happen. Two big hurdles have been cleared, congress rewrote the stupid law they wrote to basically make Hagel (Clinton at the time) Obama and I think Holder personally responsible for whatever happened, and there's a new pres in Yemen so they will probably take the detainees and make sure they don't go straight to the nearest training camp. There are still 3 or 4 who don't have a country who will take them, so I don't know what will ever happen there.