First, the Obama administration's stated goal is to close Guantanamo, not to add prisoners there.
"The administration is seeking to close Guantanamo, not add to its population, " the official said.
To keep the American people safe, the President pledged to close Guantanamo Bay, and he'll do that.
They say we should close Guantanamo , where captured foes are kept from waging war against us.
"So, the easy part, in all due respect, is to say we're going to close Guantanamo, " McCain said.
Now, as our efforts to close Guantanamo move forward, I know that the politics in Congress will be difficult.
Obama recently restated his desire to close Guantanamo, a pledge he made shortly after his inauguration in January 2009.
Does it make, or does it have any -- does it make it harder to close Guantanamo as a result?
Now, let me repeat what I said earlier: This has nothing to do with my decision to close Guantanamo.
He failed to close Guantanamo Bay, though his pledge to do so in large part earned him a Nobel Peace Prize.
The dispute has become a central issue in President Obama's promise to close Guantanamo Bay Naval Base prison by January 2010.
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Along with the order to close Guantanamo, Obama also set up a task force to advise him on strategies to relocate its prisioners.
"We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al Qaeda, " Obama said.
There has been a lot of media hand wringing recently about all the difficult problems that must be solved in order to close Guantanamo.
In seeking to close Guantanamo, Obama faces many of the same roadblocks that stymied his efforts to shut the prison when he first took office.
Most democrats support his commitment to close Guantanamo Bay, but realise that agreeing to fund an ill-prepared process would provide fodder for the Republican opposition.
"Make no mistake, we will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaeda, " he said.
But the decision the President made to close Guantanamo Bay, we would not keep open a section of that facility in order to conduct military commissions.
But make no mistake: We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al Qaeda.
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Patently, the commitment to close Guantanamo Bay within a year was made without a plan for what to do with these detainees who cannot be tried.
No-one should doubt his commitment to close Guantanamo Bay prison - it was one of the very first orders he signed on the day he took office.
The White House threatened to veto the Defense Authorization bill because of provisions on detaining transfers which would make it all but impossible to close Guantanamo Bay.
While Obama worked to close Guantanamo early in his first term, Congress enacted significant restrictions on the transfer of detainees from the prison that made its closure impractical.
Indeed, the legal challenges that have sparked so much debate in recent weeks here in Washington would be taking place whether or not I decided to close Guantanamo.
Charging foreign terror suspects in American federal courts was a top pledge by Obama shortly after he took office in 2009, aimed, in part, to close Guantanamo Bay.
And let me just step back and explain that the reason for wanting to close Guantanamo was because my number one priority is keeping the American people safe.
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Her work there centered on efforts to close Guantanamo Bay, shut down military commissions-which she calls "kangaroo courts"-and set detainees who cannot be tried in civilian courts free.
Chris Arendt, a former guard at Guantanamo Bay, says the Obama administration must rethink and reform the way it detains and prosecutes future terror suspects -- and do more than just close Guantanamo.
The president's speech last week at the National Defense University was a convenient platform for Mr. Obama to reassure liberals he was restarting his drive to close Guantanamo and addressing their concerns on drone strikes.
"We have to work with Congress and try to convince members of Congress that the overriding interest here, in terms of our national security as well as our budget, is to close Guantanamo Bay, " Carney said.
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