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Official: US moving ahead with Guantanamo closure
Associated Press ^ | Jun 5, 2014 6:48 PM EDT | Ben Fox

Posted on 06/05/2014 6:24:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Barack Obama is moving ahead with his push to close the Guantanamo Bay prison despite the uproar over the exchange of five Taliban prisoners for a captured American soldier, an administration official said Thursday.

The government has been working to reduce a backlog of prisoners already approved after a security review for transfer to their homeland or repatriation elsewhere, the official told reporters.

The official said a “significant number” of prisoners are on their way toward release, but he declined to say precisely how many or when they would leave Guantanamo. The remarks were made on condition of anonymity amid fierce criticism in Congress over the decision to swap the five Taliban for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. …

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bergdahl; gitmo; guantanamo; guantanamoclosing; obama; rop; taliban; treason
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1 posted on 06/05/2014 6:24:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How do you spell impeachment?


2 posted on 06/05/2014 6:26:57 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Getting rid of RINOs and replacing them with Conservatives so the Republican party stops acting like this.........


3 posted on 06/05/2014 6:29:07 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hussein does not care what anyone thinks.

His time is limited, he’s not running again.

He cares not about ratings, public opinion, etc.

He has a couple of years to get his anti-American agenda implemented, and he’ll do it in whatever way he has to - lawful or not.

Sadly, he gets away with it, and the media will continue to give him cover.


4 posted on 06/05/2014 6:29:15 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Former Proud Canadian

FUBO!!


5 posted on 06/05/2014 6:29:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Congress will scream their heads off in outrage and do absolutely nothing.


6 posted on 06/05/2014 6:31:30 PM PDT by Reddon
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To: Olog-hai

Wake me up —this MUST be a bad dream.

It’s like he’s TRYING to be The Worst Prez in US History….


7 posted on 06/05/2014 6:32:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: JudyinCanada
The RATS have made progress because when they implement anything at least 20%
of it sticks. Inch by inch. We need a POTUS who will cut back the decades of
Constitutional abuse by the Socialists and Elitists in our Government.

Start with the EPA to bring back our Economy, and end it with finishing that fence!

This is a big mistake Obama/Dems are making. I cannot fathom the outcome of such a move.

8 posted on 06/05/2014 6:33:56 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Olog-hai
a “significant number” of prisoners are on their way toward release

What am a bid for these last four upstanding members of the "Religion of Peace"??? Do I hear one box of dates??? SOLD!!!

Yet another campaign promise kept!!!

10 posted on 06/05/2014 6:35:41 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Olog-hai

... and the muslims are praising allah they have their man in the house, errr how was that? The Taliban are in the WHouse?

The ghazi is acting with no regard as to America, her heritage and her wishes. The dictator will bring us war, and to be arrogant about it, on American soil. His hate is that high. If the muslims do not show, he will unleash our own government on people like those who read FR. It will probably be both, with America attacking Israel. Either way Islam will make a quantum leap at America’s expense.

That is the problem with having a cultural alien in that office.


11 posted on 06/05/2014 6:36:53 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Olog-hai

arrest and place the entire O administration in Gitmo , for treason and subversion if the United States of America


12 posted on 06/05/2014 6:37:38 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Olog-hai

Somewhere, Jimmah is grinning wide.

13 posted on 06/05/2014 6:38:27 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Olog-hai

This guy is in full blown dictator mode and Congress isn’t worth a crap in this.


14 posted on 06/05/2014 6:39:00 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Olog-hai

Where oh where is the EXEMPT Congress?

In their kiddie brothels outside of all Law?

With their sex slaves in Quatar outside of all Law?

With al Qaeda in the White House outside of all Law?

In their banks, laughing, outside of all Law?

With their foreign backers, as they hand over
trade secrets obtained from the NSA?


15 posted on 06/05/2014 6:39:10 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: himno hero

“America” attacking Israel? No, that won’t happen, not with the liberals’ weakening of the US military for one and the fact that all of Israel’s enemies are the USA’s enemies first.


16 posted on 06/05/2014 6:39:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
So after eight years of Obama, the only people with more freedom will be the terrorists.
17 posted on 06/05/2014 6:40:25 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Olog-hai

A cornered rat is the most dangerous. The lame duck has gone loco.


18 posted on 06/05/2014 6:43:16 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Olog-hai

That is a great theme and a great dream.

I believe we have a desperate muslim with a extreme level of muslim hate surging through his veins with no concern for consequence. I maintain he is a Ghazi.

I also believe most of his crew have abandoned Israel in favor of all the neighbors. You see it in his Arab spring efforts. This is further supported by his most recent repatriation of terrorists to the world of Islam, let alone the open door to the MB.

This is a consistent nObama.


19 posted on 06/05/2014 6:47:49 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Reddon

Yep! That’s ALL they do and he knows it which is why he’s doing anything he wants.


20 posted on 06/05/2014 6:49:19 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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