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Catherine Herridge reports from Washington, D.C.
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- Date Jan 29, 2013
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State Department is close the office working on shutting down Guantanamo Bay.
A source telling Fox News this is a sign the administration does not plan on closing that military prison during this term.
Our chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge live on this so Catherine.
This announcement was it under the radar not there in Washington.
Well it was still -- good morning it was an obscure internal State Department announcement.
The revealed the administration's direction and on closing the Guantanamo detention camps Daniel -- who has been charged with overseeing the transfer detainees from Guantanamo.
Has been reassigned and no replacement has been identified a military source who worked at Guantanamo issue under President Bush told Fox News.
That this is a tacit acknowledgment that closing the camp is not a priority in mr.
Obama second term.
Since 2009 the number of detainees at Guantanamo has dropped from 242.
To the current level of 166.
This is 71 transfers the difference in the math appears to be that single death at the Guantanamo camps.
The greatest number of detainees remaining.
It's close to 100 and they all come from Yemen they cannot be returned to their home country because of instability and because of the strength of Al qaeda's affiliate there them.
Now there is evidence that these 911 attorneys and -- won about the CIA's secret prisons but what do you have on that Katherine.
Well the high value fourteen -- -- the name for the detainees who were transferred from the CIA secret prisons are black sites.
The wind tunnel under President Bush and of that five -- the nine elevenths suspects whose pretrial hearings continue this week.
An effort to preserve evidence the -- defense lawyers.
Are now seeking to keep the black sites in -- to remain exactly as they were when the men that were allegedly tortured there.
The self described architect of 9/11 one of the three detainees to be water boarded at the secret sites.
You see him there in about 2003.
And then more recently -- International Red Cross picture.
What was bizarre this morning as the proceedings continued is that there does appear to be a third level of a monitoring or censorship if you will that block the public.
And the reporters from hearing what -- down.
There's the judge a military censor and now there seems evidence.
Of a third party and 1 of the central complaints from the ACLU and others is that these military proceedings especially when they're dealing with the CIA black site.
Are far from transparent.
Under the Obama administration.
Catherine Herridge on that story as always thank you Catherine you're welcome mark.
