This is a very difficult position to be in. If he just knew the depth of cowardice and corruption in the congress, I dont think Obama would have campaigned on this issue. .... President Obama wants to close the prison at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay before leaving office. But his departing defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, told NPR News the job is going to be very difficult to complete in that time. Hagel made that remark in an exit interview Friday, one of only a handful he granted as he prepared to vacate his expansive office at the Pentagon. The interview will air Monday on Morning Edition. His office looks across the Potomac toward the Capitol — where Hagel once served as a Republican senator — and President Obamas White House, which Hagel served for a surprisingly short time. Hagels resignation, never fully explained in public, was privately blamed on a variety of factors — one of them being White House frustration with his handling of Guantanamo. No detainee could be transferred out of the prison until Hagel certified that the prisoner would be placed in some other situation where he would not pose a threat to the United States. This was not easy to do. npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/01/24/379587702/closing-gitmo-going-to-be-very-difficult-hagel-says
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