Posted on 10/14/2009 3:36:50 AM PDT by Scanian
"WE may have difficulty meeting the January date" for closing Gitmo, Attorney General Eric Holder said recently. "Opposition from lawmakers to the idea of bringing detainees to US prisons could hurt the effort to close the prison at Guantanamo."
No kidding. It's a fair question if Team Obama will ever be able to close the Guantanamo Bay facility.
The first problem is finding a domestic site to move the detainees to, when the mere floating of a name generates enough local protests to derail the idea. In Leavenworth, Kan., for example, bipartisan political and citizen opposition was sufficient to force White House planners to remove the Leavenworth prison from the list.
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Right about now O is contemplating Gitmo as a great place to hold every on air personality on FNC.
Simple. Pull all US folks and material out and give the keys to one of the detainees.
The population will drop by half the first week and when the remainder try to cross into Cuban territory...
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