President Trump said Tuesday during his State of the Union speech that he signed an executive order to keep open the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The move reverses a directive issued by President Barack Obama in 2009 that sought to close the prison, which had been used after 9/11 to hold about 780 suspected terrorists captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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