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Almost a decade ago, in June 2007, as he campaigned for president, then-Sen. Barack Obama told a Texas crowd, “We’re going to close Guantánamo. And we’re going to restore habeas corpus.”
One week after winning the November 2008 election, President-elect Obama released his plan to close the prison. Two days after entering office, on Jan. 22, 2009, he issued an executive ordercalling for the prison Guantánamo to be closed.
More than seven years after the president signed the executive order, however, the prison remains open. ...
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March 9, 2016