Guantánamo, the Constitution and Presidential Politics
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Congress says the inmates left at Guantánamo Bay are too dangerous to allow on American soil—even in prisons as secure as the Gulag. But President Obama made a campaign promise to shut Guantánamo down. Will that lead to a constitutional battle with political implications for next year's presidential campaign?
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| 0:35.8 | Guantanamo, the Constitution and Presidential Politics. |
| 0:42.9 | Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:46.7 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:49.2 | In 2008, candidate Barack Obama accused George W. Bush of abusing the power of the presidency to establish |
| 0:55.7 | the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Now President Obama is accused of doing the same thing to close |
| 1:01.3 | Guantanamo Bay. It's all about the authority of the commander-in-chief. But Congress says the |
| 1:07.0 | remaining inmates are too dangerous to be held in American prisons, and it's made the transfer illegal. The White House says executive action is not off the table, and that could |
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| 1:57.1 | Congress says the inmates left at Guantanamo Bay are too dangerous to allow an American |
| 2:01.5 | soil, even in prisons as secure as the gulag. But President Obama made a campaign promise to shut |
| 2:07.5 | Guantanamo down, and that may lead to a constitutional battle with political implications for next |
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