“It's time to close Gitmo.”

— Barack Obama

Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address (January 20, 2015) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/20/remarks-president-state-union-address-january-20-2015 <br class="br">2015

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