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https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/14/502007304/trump-has-vowed-to-fill-guantanamo-with-some-bad-dudes-but-who

 

Trump Has Vowed To Fill Guantanamo With 'Some Bad Dudes' — But Who?

 

Among the many unknowns hanging over this presidential transition: the fate of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Obama has sworn to close it; President-elect Trump wants to fill it up again.

 

Obama has been promising the closure will happen since his second day in office in 2009. In February, he repeated that pledge one more time, saying, "I'm absolutely committed to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo."

 

That same day, at a campaign rally in Sparks, Nevada, Donald Trump was promising the opposite.

 

"This morning, I watched President Obama talking about Gitmo, right, Guantanamo Bay, which by the way, which by the way, we are keeping open. Which we are keeping open … and we're gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me, we're gonna load it up."

 

But, says Ben Wittes, editor-in-chief of the national security blog Lawfare, "You have to ask the question, with whom?"

 

Because the U.S. is not fighting ground wars and taking prisoners like it once did, Wittes wonders just how Trump expects to load up Guantanamo with "bad dudes."

 

"Trump's stated military strategy and ambition are so hard to figure out that it's not at all clear to me what the captive population that would be subject to being moved to Guantanamo [is], who they would be or where they would come from," he says.

 

If it were up to Trump, those suspects might actually come from the United States. Asked last summer by the Miami Herald ifAmericans accused of terrorismshould be tried by military commissions in Guantanamo, Trump endorsed such a policy.

 

"I know that they want to try them in our regular court systems, and I don't like that at all. I don't like that at all. I would say they could be tried there, that'll be fine," he said.