Posted on 06/26/2010 10:34:13 AM PDT by FTJM
More so than in any other administration, Friday nights have become a game in themselves for people to see what kind of embarrassing and politically damaging information the White House wants to hide in the virtual news blackout of Saturdays. Usually it involves policy and personnel changes that would tend to anger their base — and this week may be the granddaddy of Friday Night news dumps. The New York Times reports that sources within the administration have all but thrown in the towel on closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and now want to shift the blame to Congress:
Still, some senior officials say privately that the administration has done its part, including identifying the Illinois prison — an empty maximum-security center in Thomson, 150 miles west of Chicago — where the detainees could be held. They blame Congress for failing to execute that endgame.
“The president can’t just wave a magic wand to say that Gitmo will be closed,” said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal thinking on a sensitive issue. …
One administration official argued that the White House was still trying. On May 26, Mr. Obama’s national security adviser, James Jones, sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee reiterating the case.
But Mr. Levin portrayed the administration as unwilling to make a serious effort to exert its influence, contrasting its muted response to legislative hurdles to closing Guantánamo with “very vocal” threats to veto financing for a fighter jet engine it opposes.
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This is sure going to upset John MeCain.
Good...’cause there isn’t gonna be a second term. He won’t win a second time.
Then he won’t close Gitmo at all because he isn’t going to see a second term.
there, fixed it...
My hope is that Obama is a resident at Gitmo in the near future.
Then gitmo will stay open. 0bama will be back in Kenya in 2013.
IOW, never
One term is all Obama will get.....and it would not be a full term if he was impeached and found in the wrong.
It’s the mean-old Republicans’ fault. They’re blocking Obama’s progress on pacifying his left-wing kook base.
Maybe he will get around to it in his third or fourth term.
Bush’s fault!!! He put them in Gitmo.
He ain’t gonna close it in his second term either ...
... cause there ain’t gonna be one.
Or appoint it to his heir after he dies of old age in his first term as king/dictator.
On a brighter note; would love to see some real Justice and the entire cadre of Obama,Inc. sent there; post their 'guilty' verdicts for their shared treason committed against America.
On a brighter note; would love to see some real Justice and the entire cadre of Obama,Inc. sent there; post their 'guilty' verdicts for their shared treason committed against America.
God help us, Queen Malia
Yep Gitmo is forever because OBama ain’t getting another term!
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