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Eliot Engel: “An overwhelming majority of national security and military experts... think it should be shuttered.”

On the recordMarch 22, 2016
An overwhelming majority of national security and military experts... think it should be shuttered.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel cites expert consensus on the need to close Guantanamo.

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