President Barack Obama reiterated his 2008 pledge to close the military prison facility at Guantanamo Bay during a taping of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Thursday afternoon. Obama signed an executive order his first week in office that ordered the Guantanamo Bay prison closed by January 2010, but Congress has inserted language into legistation Obama signed that prevented him from closing the facility.
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