{"id":346233,"date":"2018-02-01T00:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-mistaken-in-dealing-with-gitmo\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T00:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:14:25","slug":"presstv-trump-mistaken-in-dealing-with-gitmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-mistaken-in-dealing-with-gitmo\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Trump mistaken in dealing with Gitmo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>The American Civil Liberties Union has blasted US President Donald Trump&#8217;s order to keep the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison open.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The director of the ACLU National Security Project, Hina Shamsi, reacted Wednesday to the president\u2019s executive order issued moments before his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cThe notion that Guantanamo is worthwhile would be laughable if it wasn&#8217;t so tragic. In addition to the incalculable human suffering, it costs taxpayers more than $445 million a year to detain the 41 men now there. Congress should prevent President Trump from continuing unlawful detention and unconstitutional military commissions. And we all must pledge \u2014 not one person more in Guantanamo, not in our names,\u201d she said<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Shamsi further suggested that former President Barrack Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, were on the right track in dealing with Gitmo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7C8ECBnEbCk?rel=0\" width=\"555\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cTrump is making a big mistake by doubling down on the national&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/31\/550868\/Trump-mistaken-in-dealing-with-Gitmo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union has blasted US President Donald Trump&#8217;s order to keep the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison open. The director of the ACLU National Security Project, Hina Shamsi, reacted Wednesday to the president\u2019s executive order issued moments before his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. \u201cThe notion that Guantanamo is worthwhile would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346233","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=346233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}