Chuck Hagel said...

The President has determined that closing it is a national security imperative.

It is up to the people of Afghanistan to make these decisions--their military, their new leadership that will be coming ...

If Congress would not agree to that request, it would be a pretty devastating message that we send to the world.

It is hard to overstate how damaging the continued existence of the Detention Facility at Guantanamo has been and contin...