Carol Rosenberg:
So, three presidents out of four have said they wanted to close it.
For President Bush, it was aspirational. He said, we shouldn't need to do this. For President Obama, it was intentional, meaning the former constitutional law professor was offended by the notion of indefinite detention without charge.
President Biden doesn't talk about it that much. We don't know where he lands on the aspirational vs. intentional spectrum. He hasn't assigned anyone full-time to this task. The argument is that, there's so few of them, it can be handled by a number of people in government.
But the counterargument is, if you want something done, make someone responsible for it, and they can move government. So, I think the question is, how badly does he want it?
And I think I have told you this before, Amna. Closing Guantanamo doesn't mean opening the gates and letting everybody go. It means moving Guantanamo, picking up a number of detainees and taking them to detention facilities in the United States for some sort of similar kind of detention.
And, right now, Congress won't have it. The law says they can't move them here.
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