Refinery29
By: Jenifer Fenton

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He admitted it would take more than his first 100 days in office, but seven years later, President Barack Obama is still trying to fulfill a long-ago made promise to close the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Speaking from the White House on Tuesday, Obama said: “I don’t want to pass this problem on to the next president, whoever it is.”

“If we don’t do what’s required now, I think future generations are going to look back and ask why we failed to act when the right course, the right side of history, and justice and our best American traditions was clear,” Obama added…

Martin Reardon, a senior vice president at The Soufan Group, an intelligence and risk consultancy, told Refinery29 he had similar thoughts.

“For those detainees who can be prosecuted, either by military commission or in the civilian courts, bring the full weight of our justice system down on them. But after 14 years of incarceration, the vast majority of the remaining detainees face no charges whatsoever, yet are somehow deemed ‘too dangerous to release.’ That’s a dangerous precedent no matter where they’re kept,” Reardon said…

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