It Is Expected That President Obama Will Soon Issue An Executive Order To Close Guantanamo Prison

FOX News: Pentagon to release Guantanamo detainee relocation plan, as Obama pressed ahead with closure

The Pentagon is expected to release a plan next week on President Obama’s years-long effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center that suggests a Colorado prison dubbed “the Alcatraz of the Rockies” as one suitable site to relocate expected life-long detainees, Obama administration officials say.

Obama made a campaign promise in his 2008 White House bid to close the facility, arguing the move would be in the United States’ best financial, national security and foreign policy interests and in the name of justice -- considering some of the detainees have been held for nearly nine years without trial or sentencing.

However, critics of the promise, including many Republicans, fear transferring detainees to the U.S. mainland as part of an overall closure plan poses too much of a homeland security risk. They also say the president has yet to submit a closure plan and have been critical of the administration recently allowing some known terrorists to return to the Middle East

More News On Reports That The White House Will be Issing A Plan To Close Guantanamo Prison

White House: Guantanamo can still be closed before Obama leaves -- Reuters
Pentagon plan to close Guantanamo expected next week -- AP
US set to release plan to close Guantanamo prison -- Independent
Political fight erupts over where to house Guantanamo Bay detainees if controversial prison is closed -- New York Daily News
Republicans Warn Obama Not to Close Guantanamo on His Own -- VOA