At last someone in the State Department is a success.
Via CNS News
Secretary of State John Kerry has praised the departing official who for the last 18 months has been leading the effort to get foreign governments to accept Guantanamo Bay terrorist suspects, in pursuit of President Obama’s 2009 pledge to shut down the post-9/11 detention facility.
Kerry said late Monday Clifford Sloan had been “very skillful negotiating with our foreign partners and allies.” He attributed to those skills the fact that 34 detainees – “with more on the way” – had been moved out of the facility in Cuba over that 18-month period.[…]
Among the war-on-terror detainees sent to other countries this year were five senior Taliban figures, released to Qatar last June in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network since 2009.
The most recent transfer to be reported, this past week, was that of four Afghans sent home at the request of President Ashraf Ghani. Others have been taken this year by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Algeria, Uruguay, Georgia and Slovakia.
A total of 132 detainees remain at the camp, of whom 64 have been approved for transfer. The remainder pose the biggest difficulty for the administration, as Obama conceded again in a CNN interview on Sunday.