Posted on 06/02/2009 10:40:28 AM PDT by reaganaut1
On his second day in office, President Obama issued an executive order to shutter the Guantanamo Bay detention camp within one year--without any plan for how to dispose of the 241 detainees held there. With the clock ticking, the president is discovering that closing Guantanamo is more easily said than done, especially now that his own party in Congress has deserted him.
Recently, the Senate, including the Democratic leadership and nearly all of its members, refused to grant the president the $80 million he asked for to close the facility, voting 90 to 6 to strip the requested funds from a war-spending bill. In a stunning rebuke, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said "Democrats under no circumstances will move forward without a comprehensive, responsible plan from the president. We will never allow terrorists to be released into the United States."
The president may find it nearly impossible to meet his deadline to close Guantanamo without Congress's support. And the $80 million may be the least of his challenges. His greatest obstacle could be a national security law--and one that he voted for. The REAL ID Act of 2005 prohibits anyone affiliated with terrorist activity from entering and living in the United States. (It does not cover people brought here to be incarcerated.) Primarily an immigration reform measure, the act specifically excludes from our nation any foreigner who "has engaged in a terrorist activity . . . is a member of a terrorist organization . . . endorses or espouses terrorist activity or . . . has received military-type training . . . [from] a terrorist organization." This would cover many, if not all, of the prisoners at Guantanamo. The act was included in an appropriation bill, which then-Senator Obama voted for, along with 98 other Senators.
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When you make a deal with the devil, payback can be a b*tch...!
“Oh crap, I forgot to read the fine print”
Karma can be wonderful.
Sho nuff. He is a professional campaigner and has NEVER run anything. I think he is just going back to what he knows and that is campaigning. Which means we really don’t have a president. We have a celebutard who plays the president on TV.
I actually heard an MSMer here who does a live news show slip up the other day and call Zero President David Palmer. How many people thought they were voting for a TV character???
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