Scholar: Closing Gitmo about politics, not the law
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President Obama can close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without congressional approval, most experts agree. The real question is a matter of politics, not hypothetical legal rationale, they say.
"Who's going to stop Obama?" asked legal scholar J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department attorney. "That has been the question over the last eight years. No one that I've seen seems to have the skillset to stop him."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Legally, the only restriction on his authority is his ability to spend money to transfer any of the roughly 100 detainees to the U.S., not over the facility itself, Adams said.