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On January 30, shortly before delivering his first State of the Union address, President Trump signed<\/a> an executive order rolling back efforts by his predecessor, Barack Obama, to close Guantanamo Bay, vowing instead to keep it open indefinitely. Trump also indicated that he intends to use the prison to detain future terrorism suspects, which would be the first time in a decade that new prisoners have been brought into the facility. Although President Obama was unable to overcome opposition in order to close the facility for good, his administration was able to transfer a total of 196 of its prisoners overseas.\u00a0 Now 41 detainees remain, only a small minority of who have ever been charged with a crime or completed trial in a military court.<\/p>\n

In the order itself, the Trump administration insists that keeping Guantanamo open is consistent with the law, as outlined in the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. The AUMF was a response to the 9\/11 terrorist attacks and gave the United States full authorization \u201cto detain certain persons who were a part of\u2026 al-Qa\u2019ida\u201d as well as \u201cassociated forces engaged in hostilities against the United States\u201d. Because the United States is still at war with al-Qa\u2019ida, as well as the Islamic State, the administration argues that it is necessary that the facility remain in use. Furthermore, the order states that all detainees transferred to Guantanamo in the future will have to undergo \u201cprocedures for periodic review\u201d, in order to \u201cdetermine whether continued law of war detention is necessary\u201d in the interests of U.S. national security.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reports<\/a> that the immediate effect of the order is not as important as the message it sends, and warns that \u201cit may intensify criticism from those who argued that the prison is a stain on America\u2019s global reputation\u201d. Wells Dixon, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents some of the prison\u2019s detainees, argues that the closure of Guantanamo is not only necessary for humanitarian purposes, but also \u201c\u2018imperative to the national security of the United States\u2019\u201d. Even President George W. Bush eventually came to the conclusion that the prison was doing more harm than good, according to his former legal adviser John Bellinger. Others worry that the administration is exposing itself to court challenges over its implementation of U.S. counterterrorism law, or that keeping Guantanamo open will endanger Americans abroad, particularly those in the Middle East, by subjecting them to retaliation.<\/p>\n

For more on the possible legal implications of this order, see Bruce Zagaris\u2019 article entitled \u201cMotion Challenges Indefinite Detention of 11 Guantanamo Detainees for 16 Years Without Charges or Trial\u201d, in the January 2018 edition of the International Law Enforcement Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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