Obama administration approves its largest single release of Guantanamo detainees ever.

December 19, 2016

Headline: Obama Races to Sharply Reduce Guantánamo Population Before Term’s End

By late in the day, officials said, the administration had agreed to tell Congress that it intended to transfer 17 or 18 of the 59 remaining detainees at the prison; they would go to Italy, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. If all goes as planned, that will leave 41 or 42 prisoners in Guantánamo for Donald J. Trump’s administration. Mr. Trump has vowed to keep the prison operating and “load it up with some bad dudes.”

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