In the first days of this administration, the President issued three executive orders that set forth a robust agenda to develop a more sustainable detention policy that reflects our values. Besides directing Guantanamo's closure, a policy to which the administration remains committed, the President ordered a comprehensive review of detainees remaining at the detention facility to determine the disposition most appropriate to each individual. This review, concluding in January 2010, involved a task force of senior officials from across the government. The recently signed executive order builds on this effort by providing a periodic review for covered detainees that again looks to the interagency for unanimous agreement on any decision to transfer.

Guant�namo detainee transfer policy and recidivism : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held April 13, 2011.

This report offers a brief background of the salient issues raised by H.R. 1540 and S. 1867 regarding detention matters, provides a section-by-section analysis of the relevant subdivision of each bill, and compares the bills' approaches with respect to the major issues they address.