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President Barack Obama swore as far back as 2008 he’d close the U.S.-run prison for terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay. Five and a half years later, he finally took a real risk to get that process moving. The president defied Congress over the weekend, ignoring a 30-day notice rule required by law to greenlight the transfer to Qatar of five alleged members of the Taliban held at Guantánamo in exchange for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan. It’s Obama’s most assertive move to shrink Guantánamo’s population since U.S. embassy bombings suspect Ahmed Ghailani was flown from the...

Oil spill clogging Washington's biggest mouths By: Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri Washington Examiner 06/08/10 9:00 PM EDT CNN contributor Alex Castellanos (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images) Since BP bought up some of Washington’s biggest pundits to clean up their image, things are getting sticky. Television bookers are strapped for guests, we hear, and conflicts of interest have cropped up. Take John Feehery. He frequently appears on CNN and MSNBC, but has been working on BP’s account for two weeks with the Brunswick Group. When he appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed [Schultz] Show” on June 1, the BP story was...