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President Obama's Goal Of Closing Guantanamo Bay Prison Stalled At The Pentagon
Huffington Post ^ | September 30, 2014 | By NEDRA PICKLER

Posted on 09/30/2014 5:58:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The transfer of prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay has ground to a halt amid a slow Pentagon approval process, causing deep frustration within the administration and raising doubts that President Barack Obama will be able to fulfill his campaign promise to close the offshore prison for terrorism suspects.

Obama has said Guantanamo's continued operation hurts U.S. standing overseas and is a recruitment tool for terrorists.

"The president would absolutely like to see more progress in our efforts to close Guantanamo," Obama counter terrorism adviser Lisa Monaco said. "He wants it closed. He's pushing his own team very hard, raising it weekly with me, with Secretary Hagel, with Secretary (of State John) Kerry. He also wants Congress to act to remove the restrictions in place that are making it even harder to move forward."

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: election2008; election2014; failure; gitmo

1 posted on 09/30/2014 5:58:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think what makes Gitmo a “target for terrorist recruiting” is the liberal media’s constant barrage of mentioning it.


2 posted on 09/30/2014 6:01:06 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, gee, maybe he ought notta (ought notta? what the hell?) have said he was going to do something before he knew whether or not it could be done.
3 posted on 09/30/2014 6:02:10 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Uh, huh. Just like he wanted to fulfill his campaign promise of getting out of Iraq.

How’d that work out?

These journalists are truly brainless. They treat the promise as an end it itself, just ‘cause it came out of the One’s pie hole. Reality and consequences be damned.


4 posted on 09/30/2014 6:02:24 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This comes as news to Obama.

Ha haaaaaa! Get it? Because he learns everything from what he reads in the.....ah, ferget it. He's beyond being a joke anymore.

5 posted on 09/30/2014 6:09:57 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Oh, the poor blameless sap. Clown Prince nobama knows all but is thwarted by the resistance and incompetence of those around him. It is so sad that this perfect being cannot bring us to nirhvana in spite of those who do there best to thwart his excellence.


6 posted on 09/30/2014 6:16:01 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Not my fault! See, it's those bad men in uniforms across the river. They're so unenlightened and slow.

Could you imagine working for a guy like this in the real world?

7 posted on 09/30/2014 6:18:42 AM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: hal ogen

All I know is if Woodward and Bernstein were still alive he wouldn’t get away with this crap.


8 posted on 09/30/2014 6:18:46 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Serious?- He’s a demonRAT!

O’bummer will always get a free pass ON EVERYTHING!!

especially illegal-Unconstitutional BS

(BTW- O’bummer does NOT need to even consider closing
Gitmo- HE HAS BEEN RELEASING THE TOP Al-Qaida leaders
FOR U.S. TRAITORS!!)


9 posted on 09/30/2014 6:31:19 AM PDT by mj1234
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To: Texas Eagle

They are both alive.


10 posted on 09/30/2014 6:40:02 AM PDT by Citizen Zed ("Freedom costs a buck o five" - Gary Johnston, TAWP)
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To: Citizen Zed
They are both alive.

The hell you say.

Wait. Just to be clear. I'm talking about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein not Joanne Woodward and Leonard Bernstein.

11 posted on 09/30/2014 6:41:45 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Article implies that the Pentagon is engaged in more or less open insubordination against Obama.

Way to go, guys! Let’s follow that to its logical conclusion.


12 posted on 09/30/2014 6:45:11 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t get it. He has a pen. He has a phone.


13 posted on 09/30/2014 7:01:33 AM PDT by Andyman (The truth shall make you FReep.)
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To: Texas Eagle

You win. :)


14 posted on 09/30/2014 8:01:45 AM PDT by Citizen Zed ("Freedom costs a buck o five" - Gary Johnston, TAWP)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Blaming the Pentagon now. The Pickler really is a true believer . . .


15 posted on 09/30/2014 5:34:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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