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Obama was trying to get Muslim terrorists out of Guantanamo since he was elected.

“On 22 January 2009, President Barack Obama signed an order to suspend proceedings at Guantanamo military commission for 120 days and shut down the detention facility that year.[12][13] On 29 January 2009, a military judge at Guantanamo rejected the White House request in the case of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, creating an unexpected challenge for the administration as it reviewed how the United States brings Guantanamo detainees to trial.[14] On 20 May 2009, the United States Senate passed an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2346) by a 90–6 vote to block funds needed for the transfer or release of prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[15] President Obama issued a Presidential memorandum dated 15 December 2009, ordering Thomson Correctional Center, Thomson, Illinois to be prepared to accept transferred Guantanamo prisoners.[16]

The Final Report of the Guantanamo Review Task Force, dated 22 January 2010, published the results for the 240 detainees subject to the Review: 36 were the subject of active cases or investigations; 30 detainees from Yemen were designated for “conditional detention” due to the poor security environment in Yemen; 126 detainees were approved for transfer; 48 detainees were determined “too dangerous to transfer but not feasible for prosecution”.[17]

On 7 January 2011, President Obama signed the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill, which, in part, placed restrictions on the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to the mainland or to foreign countries, thus impeding the closure of the facility.[18] In February 2011, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Guantanamo Bay was unlikely to be closed, due to opposition in the Congress.[19] Congress particularly opposed moving prisoners to facilities in the United States for detention or trial.[19] In April 2011, Wikileaks began publishing 779 secret files relating to prisoners in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[20] As of May 2014, 149 detainees remain at Guantanamo.[21]”


10 posted on 06/01/2014 12:28:28 PM PDT by mgist (.)
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To: mgist

I think it was even earlier than that, January 20th. I remember clear as day the very first day he took office the very FIRST thing he did was try to close Gitmo. That was his #1 priority above everything else, helping enemies of the US. And here you go - He just released 5 high ranking Taliban commanders.

WHAT does this jackass have to do to get impeached? Seriously, how much more of this bullsh*t do we have to go through? We have the ENEMY in the nations highest office. Just like GW Bush said “The terrorists will get us where we least expect it” and here they are, right in the White house. The guy is an Islamic agent and he has done nothing else but try to dismantle the US on every level. Just compare how they went after Nixon to this, I can’t believe this the stuff this guy gets away with I really can’t.


39 posted on 06/01/2014 12:41:46 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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