Posted on 06/09/2021 3:48:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has quietly begun efforts to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, using an under-the-radar approach to minimize political blowback and to try to make at least some progress in resolving a long-standing legal and human rights morass before the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
After initial plans for a more aggressive push to close the facility — including rebuffed attempts to recruit a special envoy to oversee the strategy — the White House changed course, sources said. The administration has opted to wait before it reaches out to Congress, which has thwarted previous efforts to close the camp, because of fears that political outcry might interfere with the rest of Biden's agenda.
"They don't want it to become a dominant issue that blows up," a former senior administration official involved in the discussions said of Biden officials. "They don't want it to become a lightning rod. They want it to be methodical, orderly."
But even though just 40 people are left at Gitmo, the Biden administration faces many of the same obstacles that doomed President Barack Obama's much more public effort to close it a dozen years ago.
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These people suck. Obama is getting The Biden administration to do all the dirty deeds he didn’t want to tarnish his name. All the while knowing Biden is impaired.
Another unforced error that will blow up in the Xiden Admin’s faces
it’s like they’re actually looking for ways to be incompetent, like they’re trying to guarantee Republicans win big in 2022 & 2024
the stupidity & naivete with the Xiden Crew is just unbelievable
Gitmo should have been closed with the hanging of all the prisoners on the morning of January 20, 2009.
That it still exists is beyond comprehension.
Surprised NBC is letting the cat out of the bag
BUMP
Why close Gitmo? Biden can just use it to house the “terrorists” from the Jan 6th “coup”. In the minds of Dems, they are more dangerous than Al Qaeda anyway.
Obama is getting The Biden administration to do all the dirty deeds he didn’t want to tarnish his name...
Barky the Dogeater loves what they're doing, but he's mostly laying around stoned, getting pleasured by "pretty boys he call friends".
They are already shipping them out and dispersing them around the world. This will come back to bite us in the ass.
Next step? Give Guantanamo back to Cuba?
I am sure he will let the prisoners out and give them citizenship.
Obama is a euphemism for the Marxist cabal pulling the strings. He’s the face of that cabal.
I have been to GTMO four times, three during the current conflict. Different leaders have been claiming they were going to close GTMO for many decades, not just concerning the current conflict.
The base is too valuable for sensors and for the Coast Guard. It gives us a foothold and launching base for a plethora of missions and capabilities and we would be greatly reduced without it.
The prison is temporary, the mission is permanent.
You’re all free to go! Why don’t you get a ship to America from those nice communists on the other side of the fence.
He wants to close it because he is afraid Trump will send him there whenever Trump gets back in (and all those who help cheat to get him on).
Only because it can’t hold 75 million Trump Voters.
But what about the Qnuts and the 200,000 unsealed indictments!!!!
Many of the prisoners were held for years without being charged with a crime and then released. The longest for 18 years.
This policy definitely did not help to maintain America’s image as the “good guy”
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