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To: NailInACoffin
The verbiage is that it is to take place immediately:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Guantánamo) and promptly to close detention facilities at Guantánamo, consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice, I hereby order as follows: ...

I would expect the government to begin closure immediately if a serious President released anything remotely like this.

4 posted on 05/08/2011 2:02:37 PM PDT by gitmo (Hatred of those who think differently is the left's unifying principle.-Ralph Peters NY Post)
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To: gitmo
No funds for closure. If any Federal employee spends obligates funds that are not appropriated or available for expenditure, they can go to jail. In a high profile case liked this, I guess no one was willing to take the risk.
9 posted on 05/08/2011 2:07:50 PM PDT by Truth29
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