Prospects For Closing The Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Are "Very, Very Low"

SENATE TESTIMONY - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, center, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, left, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert F. Hale, undersecretary of defense (comptroller) testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the department's 2012 budget request in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17, 2011. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

Gates: Prospects For Closing Guantanamo 'Very, Very Low' -- CNN

Washington (CNN) -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday that congressional opposition makes the likelihood of closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "very, very low."

Gates' remarks at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee was the one of the clearest signs yet of the dim prospects for carrying out one of President Barack Obama's earliest executive orders: to shutter the facility where the U.S. military has detained suspected terrorists since 2002.

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US defence chief: Prospect of closing Guantanamo low; it's now harder to release detainees -- Canadian Press

My Comment: I cannot say that I am surprised.