Politics

The Unending Gitmo Nightmare

Broken Promise

Conspicuously absent from Obama’s State of the Union was any mention of Guantánamo Bay or the 166 detainees still stuck there. Eli Lake reports on the president’s broken promise.

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In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Obama proposed bringing greater transparency to the war on al Qaeda and creating a new group to research alternatives to fossil fuels.

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