What President Obama Doesn?t Know About Guantanamo

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title What President Obama Doesn?t Know About Guantanamo
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas Joscelyn
SeriesEncounter Broadsides
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:48
Dimensions(mm): Height 177,Width 120
ISBN/Barcode 9781594034909
ClassificationsDewey:365.48097291
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Encounter Books,USA
Imprint Encounter Books,USA
Publication Date 8 July 2010
Publication Country United States

Description

On January 22, 2009, President Obama issued an executive order calling for the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to be closed within one year. It was one of the new president's first acts in office. The President explained that closing Guantanamo would return America to the "moral high ground" and restore "the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war." In this explosive new Broadside, Thomas Joscelyn explains why President Obama's executive order was pure folly. He reveals that the President made his decision to shutter Guantanamo before he or his advisers knew the first thing about the detainees, how to handle their complex cases, or about the valuable intelligence America gained from the men detained at Gitmo-intelligence that saved lives.

Author Biography

Thomas Joscelyn is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). He is the executive director of the Center for Law and Counterterrorism at FDD. He is a frequent contributor to the Weekly Standard and senior editor of the Long War Journal.