US State Department's Guantanamo envoy resigns
The State Department envoy responsible for negotiating prisoner transfers from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is resigning, officials said on Monday, even as President Barack Obama is promising a stepped-up push to close the facility.
A senior US official said another factor in Sloan's decision was that the Pentagon "certainly hasn't been as helpful as they could have been" in speeding up the process of sending prisoners home or resettling them in other countries.
Still, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement Sloan's "skillful negotiating" led to the transfer of 34 detainees and "with more on the way."
