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I don't know how many years of my life I've been writing Close-Guantanamo-Before-It's-Too-Late stories and while this would be a highly ironic end for Liz "The al-Qaeda Seven" Cheney the joke won't be funny for very long

Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunalswww.nytimes.com A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.

It never made any sense for Obama to immediately cave on closing Gitmo. The first thing he did when getting the White House was to signal weakness. I'm sure that timidity emboldened Republicans and was part of why they chose to blockade Merrick Garland. They correctly thought he'd do nothing.