ATTORNEY GENERAL/GUANTANAMO/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, were scheduled to visit the American wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Friday in a gesture of support for continuing to detain terrorism suspects without trial there and to prosecute some before a military commission.
In a statement, Ian Prior, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said the two officials would be ‘meeting with the people on the ground who are leading our governmentwide efforts’ at the prison. He said it was important for Justice Department officials ‘to have an up-to-date understanding of current operations’ there…
Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, and Thomas Bossert, the White House Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser, were also going on the trip, spokesmen for the two officials later said.
Mr. Sessions has been an outspoken supporter of continuing to use the Guantánamo prison and military commissions, dating back to his years as a senator from Alabama. This year, soon after becoming attorney general, he called the prison ‘a very fine place’ to hold, interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects.”
-Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman, “Jeff Sessions to Visit Guantánamo Bay Prison,” The New York Times online, July 7, 2017