Fordham Law School Professor Martha Rayner wrote an op-ed for The Hill about President Obama’s decision to transfer five Guantanamo prisoners to Qatar in exchange for an American POW without first notifying Congress.
President Obama’s decision to transfer five men imprisoned at Guantánamo to Qatar in exchange for a United States soldier held captive by the Taliban without notifying Congress needlessly politicized a military mission and risks halting the slow but steady progress Obama has recently made in reducing the number of men imprisoned indefinitely without charges or trial at Guantánamo.
Read the entire piece here.