Posted on 09/27/2009 7:06:48 AM PDT by kellynla
President Barack Obama may not be able to meet his stated goal of closing the much-criticized Guantanamo Bay prison by January as his administration runs into daunting legal and logistical hurdles to moving the more than 220 detainees still there.
Senior administration officials acknowledged for the first time Friday that difficulties in completing the lengthy review of detainee files and resolving other thorny questions mean the president's promised January deadline may slip.
Obama's aides have stepped up their work toward closure and the president remains as committed to closing the facility as he was when, as one of his first acts in office, he pledged to shut it down, said the officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in order to more freely discuss the sensitive issue.
They said the White House still was hoping to meet the deadline through a stepped-up effort.
The U.S. military prison in Cuba was created by former President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a landing spot for suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere. But it has since become a lightning rod of anti-U.S. criticism around the globe. There are approximately 225 detainees still being held at the prison.
Obama promised soon after taking office ��" and many times since ��" to close the prison, arguing that doing so is crucial to restoring America's image in the world and to creating a more effective anti-terror approach.
But eight months after Obama's initial pledge and with only four months to go before the January deadline, a number of difficult issues remain unresolved.
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Hussein is finding out that it is easier to stand on the sidelines and criticize than to "get in the game and play."
‘Present’
More GITMO terrorists freed
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What did she do ask her hubby? He is a big shot in the Democrat National Committee
Agree. Hussein will ultimately keep Gitmo open and operational albeit with a lot of equivocation, window-dressing, and continually delayed closure deadlines to appease the Trotsky-ites in the Donk Party.
He’s an idiot, but I don’t think he’s quite insane enough to bring them into the CONUS as pitched earlier.
Senior administration officials should have been reading FR a year ago.
TRANSLATION: Hussein found that the EVIL BUSH was right all along. Of course the MSM will give this top priority coverage!
If nobama does close Gitmo, my bet is he tries to give the place back to castro. Hopefully there is something inplace to keep nobama from having the authority to do that, but het, this is Carter2 and Jimmah gave away the Canal.
They ought to let the detainees send a delegation to some of our maxium security lockups for an inspection of what they could be looking at in the way of facilities.
Then they could vote. Do you want to stay on this tropic isle with the group of your fellow jihadists or be sent to various serious lockdowns in a much less comfortable climate?
I’m shocked....just shocked!
I thought at the time of the announcement, that for anyone who believed Gitmo would be closed within a year, I have some swampland in Florida to sell them.
Is that Jan 2013, when Hussein leaves office?
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