President elect Barack Obama and his advisers are crafting plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and prosecute terrorism suspects in the U.S. Bush had recently said that this would be “easier said than done.” Many of the 250 Guantanamo detainees are cleared for release, but the Bush administration has not able been to find a country willing to take them.
Obama foreign policy adviser Denis McDonough said the president-elect wants Guantanamo closed, but no decision has been made “about how and where to try the detainees, and there is no process in place to make that decision until his national security and legal teams are assembled.”
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