{"id":205440,"date":"2015-12-02T19:17:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=205440"},"modified":"2015-12-02T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:18:15","slug":"obama-rejects-pentagon-plan-close-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-rejects-pentagon-plan-close-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama rejects Pentagon plan to close Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The White House has reportedly rejected the Pentagon\u2019s proposed plan to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and build a replacement in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense\u2019s cost estimate for shutting down the notorious detention facility came as high as $600 million and was rejected by the White House as too expensive, according to a report by <span style=\"color: #262626;\">the Wall Street Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Administration officials said the proposal has been sent back to the Pentagon for revisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than half of the estimated cost&#8211; $350 million \u2014 was related to building a new detention facility in the US, something that Congress and state officials vehemently opposed.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Pentagon\u2019s plan would require another $300 million per year in operating costs, an official told the Journal. The annual cost of running the facility in Guantanamo is about $400 million.<\/p>\n<p>The cost dispute marked the latest setback to closing the Guantanamo prison, a top campaign promise of President Barack Obama in 2008 and one of his first executive orders when he took office in January 2009.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/12\/02\/440030\/Obama-close-Guantanamo-prison-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has reportedly rejected the Pentagon\u2019s proposed plan to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and build a replacement in the United States. The Department of Defense\u2019s cost estimate for shutting down the notorious detention facility came as high as $600 million and was rejected by the White House as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-205440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}