{"id":346470,"date":"2018-02-02T08:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T07:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-ex-us-officials-warn-trump-to-close-guantanamo-prison\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T08:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T07:50:31","slug":"presstv-ex-us-officials-warn-trump-to-close-guantanamo-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-ex-us-officials-warn-trump-to-close-guantanamo-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Ex-US officials warn Trump to close Guant\u00e1namo prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Former US officials who helped set up and run the notorious US military prison in Guant\u00e1namo Bay have warned President Donald Trump\u2019s administration about the economic consequence of keeping the facility open.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a major foreign policy shift announced in Trump\u2019s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the president signed an executive order to reverse former President Barack Obama\u2019s eight-year effort to close the facility in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also predicted that \u201cmany\u201d new inmates could soon be flown there.<\/p>\n<p>But those involved in establishing the detention center and running military tribunals there under former President George W. Bush warned that the move would be counterproductive, draining money, stretching the military and acting as a recruiting sergeant for terrorist groups around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The former US officials and military lawyers warned that Trump risks repeating a $6 billion mistake by keeping it open.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWith respect to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/02\/550989\/Guantanamo-donald-trump-cuba-state-of-the-union\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US officials who helped set up and run the notorious US military prison in Guant\u00e1namo Bay have warned President Donald Trump\u2019s administration about the economic consequence of keeping the facility open. In a major foreign policy shift announced in Trump\u2019s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the president signed an executive order to [&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-346470","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\/346470","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=346470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}