Guantanamo Bay 10 Years of Shame[/caption]
U.S. commanders say they need $49 million to build a new prison building at Guantanamo Bay for "high-value" detainees, like 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. This is according to the New York Times.
The money requested is in addition to the nearly $200 million that the top U.S. commander in the region says he needs for improvements to the existing Guantanamo facilities.
The problem?
President Obama granting the funds would be breaking a big campaign promise.
"We're going to close Guantanamo and restore habeas corpus," President Obama said while on the campaign trail in 2008.
OutFront tonight: Ret. Col. Morris Davis, Former Chief Prosecutor for Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay and Rosa Brooks, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Obama administration
Full Article at CNN
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