The Guantanamo Review Task Force was created by
Executive Order 13492
Executive Order 13492, titled Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities'','' is an Executive Order that was signed by United States President Barack Obama on 22 January 200 ...
issued by
President of the United States
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Barack Obama
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on January 22, 2009, his second full day in office.
United States Attorney General
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Eric Holder
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announced
Matthew G. Olsen as Executive Director of the task force on February 20, 2009. The task force was charged with determining which
Guantánamo
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Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port near the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, site of a U.S. naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton ...
detainees can be transferred (released), which can be prosecuted for crimes they may have committed, and, if neither of those is possible, recommending other lawful means for disposition of the detainees.
The task force was an inter-agency task force, with the
U.S. Department of Justice
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coordinating the efforts of officials from the
U.S. Department of Defense
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, the
U.S. Department of State
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, and the
Department of Homeland Security
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. The final report was issued January 22, 2010,
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] but not publicly released until May 28, 2010. The ''Washington Post'' reported that the "administration sat on the report in the wake of the
attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day because there was little public or congressional appetite for further discussion of its plan to close the military detention center."
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]
Of the 240 detainees considered, the report recommended that 126 detainees should be transferred to their home country or to another country that was willing to accept them, 36 be prosecuted in either federal court or a
military commission, 48 be held indefinitely under the laws of war and 30 Yemenis should be approved for transfer if security conditions in Yemen improved.
[
][
] As of January 2017, 41 detainees remain at Guantanamo.the White House
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* {{cite web , url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=85670#axzz1bpi9rKy4 , title=Executive Order 13492 , publisher=The American Presidency Project , date=January 22, 2009 , accessdate=October 25, 2011
Guantanamo Bay detention camp