Cat@ponder.cat to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo.www.commondreams.orgexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1367arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@hexbear.netpolitics@beehaw.orgusa@midwest.social
arrow-up1367arrow-down1external-link'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo.www.commondreams.orgCat@ponder.cat to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square39fedilinkcross-posted to: news@hexbear.netpolitics@beehaw.orgusa@midwest.social
minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoThen make them be the ones to block it from being shut down. Not try to do it right before leaving office. And maybe not sign the bill to upgrade it… https://www.courthousenews.com/obama-signs-bill-expanding-guantanamo/ Plus not like he even closed it with his closing EO https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/obama-gitmo-plan-reaction-219696
minus-squareDashi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoThat first article quotes Obama trying to close it. From the sounds of it congress attached keeping the base open as a rider to another defense funding bill. That’s a common tactic I think
Then make them be the ones to block it from being shut down. Not try to do it right before leaving office.
And maybe not sign the bill to upgrade it…
https://www.courthousenews.com/obama-signs-bill-expanding-guantanamo/
Plus not like he even closed it with his closing EO
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/obama-gitmo-plan-reaction-219696
That first article quotes Obama trying to close it. From the sounds of it congress attached keeping the base open as a rider to another defense funding bill. That’s a common tactic I think