President Obama, hoping to finally meet his 2008 campaign pledge, sent Congress a plan Tuesday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and transfer up to 60 terrorism suspects to a yet unnamed U.S. prison.

The GOP-led Congress has been strongly opposed to closing the controversial prison at the U.S. Navy station in Cuba, and it's unlikely that the White House proposal will gain much traction in an election year. ...

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