Attorney General Jeff Sessions indicated to reporters this week that he would be encouraging President Trump to allow Guantanamo Bay to remain open, a large departure from the previous administration’s agenda.

Closing the infamous military prison was one of the many unfulfilled promises uttered by Barack Obama. Wiser heads than his prevailed and the former president’s executive order calling for Guantanamo’s closure was rendered ineffective.

Sessions however was clear that he sees “no legal problem whatsoever” with keeping the detainment center open. In fact the AG supports using the facility to house future detainees.

“There’s plenty of space. We’re well-equipped for it. It’s a perfect place for it. Eventually this will be decided by the military rather than the Justice Department, but I see no legal problem whatsoever with doing that,” Sessions told radio host Hugh Hewitt.

Obama’s controversial decision to shutter Guantanamo won little support in Congress. Far more palatable is Trump’s position, that the U.S should use the facility for as long as it’s necessary. Islamic terrorism is one of the greatest threats in the world.

“I’ve been there a number of times as a senator and it’s just a very fine place for holding these kind of dangerous criminals,” Sessions added. “We’ve spent a lot of money fixing it up, and I’m inclined to the view that it remains a perfectly acceptable place. And I think a lot of the criticisms have just been totally exaggerated.”

Sessions and Trump agree that Obama’s attempts to empty the prison by releasing dangerous jihadists were ill-planned. Nearly 30 percent of the former detainees released by both Obama and George Bush have returned to terrorist activities.

The Trump administration is confident that they’ll be able to correct their predecessors mistakes. “By now, we should have worked through all the legal complications that the Obama administration seemed to allow to linger and never get decided, so nothing ever happened,” Sessions said during his interview with Hugh Hewitt.

“So it is time for us in the months to come to get this thing figured out and start using it [military justice system] in an effective way,” he continued. “In general, I don’t think we’re better off bringing these people to federal court in New York and trying them in federal court — where they get discovery rights to find out our intelligence —and get court-appointed lawyers and things of that nature.”

Trump has never shied away from criticizing Obama, yet he’s been particularly vocal about Guantanamo Bay. He lambasted Obama’s decision to release so many jihadists, and buoyed his own campaign with assurances that he would keep the prison running.

According to numerous reports, a rough draft of a Trump executive order has been circulating since January. The order cancels Obama’s 2009 dictate to close Guantanamo and demands that newly captured jihadists be detained at the facility.

“The establishment media does not appear concerned with the alarming rate of recidivism involving former Guantanamo detainees,” writes the Conservative Review.

Most media talking heads are pitted squarely against Trump. Attempting to prove that the president is wrong has become their new favorite game. Trump sparked a media firestorm Tuesday with an early morning tweet about former detainees who re-engaged in terrorist activities.

The mainstream media sprang to Obama’s defense by pointing out that most of the men had been released by Bush and not Obama as Trump claimed. While journalists crowed over that minor victory, they ignored the fact that the president “actually understated the threat posed by released detainees from the detention center.”

Whoever they were released by, the former detainees pose an immense threat. Obama released dozens of terrorists that had previously been deemed too dangerous to liberate. These men are now roaming free.

ISIS continues to brutalize the world. Many liberals are so cocooned from reality that they’ve managed to forget not only that jihadists have claimed hundreds of American lives, but that they could potentially harm many more.

“ODNI data concludes that about 30 percent of Guantanamo detainees, once released, will reengage (or be suspected of reengaging) in terrorism or communicate with terrorist organizations…So in addition to the 208 individuals who are included in the “confirmed” or “suspected” of reengaging columns, there is a high likelihood that even more former Gitmo detainees have thrown their weight behind jihadist groups…” the Conservative Review reports.

That means there are potentially hundreds of violent jihadists who are now free to plot against the U.S and its allies. Bush and Obama freed so many terrorists that the prison held only 41 detainees when the current president assumed office.

Will Trump fill Guantanamo with new captives? It remains to be seen, although it appears obvious that administration is heavily leaning that way.

“This morning, I watched President Obama talking about Gitmo… Which we are keeping open … and we’re gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me, we’re gonna load it up,” Trump famously declared at a campaign rally in Sparks, Nevada.