What President Obama Doesn’t Know About Guantanamo

On January 22, 2009, President Obama issued an executive order calling for the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to be closed within one year. The President explained that closing Guantanamo would return America to the “moral high ground” and restore our “core constitutional values.”

In this explosive new Broadside, Thomas Joscelyn explains why President Obama’s executive order was pure folly. The President made his decision to shutter Guantanamo before he or his advisers knew the first thing about the detainees, how to handle their complex cases, or about the valuable intelligence America gained from Gitmo.