WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to close it. The international community has condemned it.
On Christmas Eve, however, when it came time for him to wish some American service members a Merry Christmas for his last time in office, President George W. Bush rang up a North Carolina man who's assigned to the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Neil Ambrose, of Edenton, N.C., answered the call at the remote Navy base in southeast Cuba.
The president stuck to a template of thanking Ambrose for his service, a White House tradition, and then broke from the script.