The White House said Tuesday that the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba will still be open when President Barack Obama leaves office, conceding that a core campaign promise will go unfulfilled. Over the weekend, the U.S. transferred 10 low-level detainees from Guantanamo to Oman. Trump said during the campaign that he not only wants to keep Guantanamo open but "load it up with some bad dudes." Earnest blamed politics for failing to close the detention center, which he called a waste of money and "recruiting tool" for terrorists. "I think if he looks at the facts objectively he will really see that Guantanamo really is a bad deal for America," Wilner said.

Source: Egypt Independent January 18, 2017 09:02 UTC