Senate Bill Calls for White House Detention Plan for Guantanamo

摘要

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., has dropped his efforts to give President Barack Obama's administration a path for closing the military's controversial detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amid his frustrations that the White House has yet to submit a plan for shuttering the prison. The powerful chairman and 2008 GOP presidential nominee fiercely disagrees with Obama on most national security matters, but emerged this year as the administration's best hope at fulfilling one of its earliest - and most elusive - pledges. McCain, a former prisoner of war, has long believed that the controversy surrounding the prison hurts the United States' reputation around the world. Just months after taking the Armed Services gavel this year, he inserted language in his committee's version of the fiscal 2016 defense authorization bill that would have required the White House to submit a plan - subject to congressional approval - to transfer the remaining detainees out of Guantanamo.