Guantanamo may be too expensive for Trump to keep

By Jamie McIntyre

Published December 12, 2016 5:01am ET

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Guantanamo may be too expensive for Trump to keep — Military personnel inspect each occupied cell on a two-minute cycle at Camp 5 maximum-security facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) | Brennan Linsley

President Obama will leave office in January having failed to achieve one of his primary objectives, to close the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Just days after taking office in 2009, in one of his first acts as president, Obama signed an executive order requiring the detention facility be shuttered within a year.

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