Title: Obama: Gitmo created more terrorists than it detained

" A second decision that I made it was ordered the closing. Of the prison camp. Guantanamo -- There's over seven years. We have detained hundreds of people a one time. During that time. The system of military commissions that were in place at Guantanamo. Succeeded in convicting a grand total of three suspected terrorists. -- Three convictions. Get over seven years. Instead of bringing terrorists to justice. Efforts of prosecution met setback after setback. Cases lingered -- And in 2006. The Supreme Court invalidated the entire season. Meanwhile over 525. Detainees. Were released from Guantanamo. Under not my administration. Under the previous administration. To me repeat them. Two thirds of the detainees were released before I took office and ordered the closure of Guantanamo. There's also no question that Guantanamo set back the moral authority. That is America's strongest currency in the world. Instead of building a durable framework for the struggle against al-Qaeda the draw upon our deeply held values and traditions. Our government was defending positions that undermined the ball. In fact part of the rationale for establishing Guantanamo in the first place. With a misplaced notion that -- prison but bear. Would be beyond the wrong. A proposition that the Supreme Court soundly rejected. Meanwhile instead of serving as a tool to counterterrorism. Guantanamo became a symbol and helped al-Qaeda recruit terrorists -- office. And -- existence Guantanamo likely created more terrorists around the world. -- So the record's clear. Rather than keeping us safer the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security. It is they rallying cry for our enemies it sets back the willingness of our allies to work with us and fighting an enemy that operates in scores of countries. By any measure the cost of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing. That's why argued that it should be closed throughout my campaign. And that is why I ordered -- closed within one year."