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Obama signs $607 billion 'defense' bill, despite Guantanamo restrictions | 25 Nov 2015 | U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a 607-billion-U.S.-dollar annual defense [sic] policy bill despite its continued ban on transferring detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison to the United States. Blasting the Republican-controlled Congress for maintaining language that hampers the closure of the Guantanamo military prison in the bill, Obama called the restrictions contained in the bill “unwarranted and counterproductive.” …Obama's statement also suggested some Guantanamo provisions in the defense bill might violate the Constitution.