Clifford Sloan – the US State Department’s envoy to Gitmo, tasked with assisting in the facility's closure – said on Monday that he’d be leaving his job on December 31 following an 18-month term. Reuters called the news a “ surprise announcement ,” but Sloan told The New York Times that he always intended on staying on the job for just a year-and-a-half. However, the Chicago Tribune cited an unnamed senior US official as saying that the Department of Defense may have played a role, as the Pentagon "certainly hasn't been as helpful as they could have been" in...
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