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January 4, 2013

Obama: Guantanamo Is Waste of Money

Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald

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President Barack Obama late Tuesday signed a $633 billion defense bill that continues to block his ability to close the prison camps at Guantánamo, then in a separate signing statement issued Wednesday called the prison camps a waste of national security resources.


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