We still have a prison there because Congress refuses to appropriate money to transfer the remaining prisoners elsewhere. This is strrange right now since Congress claims to be concerned about the budget and Gitmo costs $800k/prisoner .
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/20...en-years-later
from wiki:
In October 2007 Colonel Davis resigned from his position as Chief Prosecutor and became the Head of the Air Force Judiciary stating that "The guy who said waterboarding is A-okay I was not going to take orders from. I quit", hours after he was informed that controversial General Counsel William Haynes would be his superior.[16] He also charged that there was meddling from the Pentagon, and claimed this presented serious conflicts of interest:[17]
Davis states that he was denied an end-of-tour medal for his two years at Guantanamo because he resigned and later spoke out about problems in the Pentagon's Office of Military Commissions. Davis stated about the medal denial, "I tell the truth, and I get labeled as having served dishonorably. I'm very concerned about the chilling effect . . . on the process".[18]
Davis has frequently spoken out against the Commissions, since his resignation.
[There are 171 remaining detainees of whom 89 have been cleared of all charges by several
security groups. But still they sit in Gitmo.]
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