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| White House lawyer visiting Guantánamo prison camps |
| By ROSENBERG & TALEV- Miami Herald |
| Published: 02/18/2009 |
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's chief White House lawyer was on a site visit at the prison camps of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday, working on a plan to empty the detention center of 245 detainees within a year. White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said general counsel Gregory Craig was accompanied by Department of Justice and Pentagon staff as ``part of an effort to monitor the implementation of the president's plan to strengthen our national security and close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility.'' It was not immediately known whether the team was questioning captives as well as military at the controversial detention center, which opened Jan. 11, 2002. Some of the detainees have been there from the start. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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