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Obama Won’t Use Exec Order to Shut Gitmo

EMPTY PROMISE

The facility may remain open.

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Lucas Jackson / Reuters

President Obama will not use an executive order to shut the Guantanamo Bay prison facility—once a major goal of his presidency. Officials in the White House reportedly concluded the action would not be a viable strategy, and that route has been quashed.

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