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Yes. The President even rolled out a plan for doing so. Then 90 Senators filled their pants in terror of the idea of the internees being transferred to Supermax facilities (which they can presumably overcome using their Special Terrorist Powers) and given something akin to a trial (which would turn farcical, because the CIA and military broke every rule in the book), so that got blocked right quick.
Gitmo is a classical GWB tarpit: The nation can only extricate itself with the greatest of trouble and there's no way of retaining dignity in the process.
I remember Obama wanting to cose it down but then I also remember repubs in congress whinning to no end about it so it wasn't. I am sure that republicans in congress had a hand in giving money to Gitmmo for the soccer field.
The sputtering end of the Obama administration’s plans to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in federal court came one day late last month in a conversation between the president and one of his top Cabinet members.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. had called President Obama to inform him that he would be returning the case to the Defense Department, a decision that would mark the effective abandonment of the president’s promise to close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
During the call, Obama did not press Holder to find a way to resurrect the federal prosecution of Mohammed and four co-defendants, according to senior administration officials familiar with the conversation. He did not object. Instead, he called it a pragmatic decision.
Yes. The President even rolled out a plan for doing so. Then 90 Senators filled their pants in terror of the idea of the internees being transferred to Supermax facilities (which they can presumably overcome using their Special Terrorist Powers) and given something akin to a trial (which would turn farcical, because the CIA and military broke every rule in the book), so that got blocked right quick.
Gitmo is a classical GWB tarpit: The nation can only extricate itself with the greatest of trouble and there's no way of retaining dignity in the process.
So 90 Senators - all of the Republicans (obviously!) - refused to allow Obama to do what he promised to do.
It wasn't just Repubs that didn't want those detainees on US soil. Oh how quick we forget.
Guantanamo Bay: How the White House lost the fight to close it - The Washington Post
Administration officials lay blame for the failed initiative on Congress, including Democrats who deserted the president, sometimes in droves. The debate, they said, became suffused with fear — fear that transferring detainees to American soil would create a genuine security threat, fear that closing Guantanamo would be electoral suicide. Some Democratic lawmakers pleaded with the White House not to press too hard, according to administration officials.
The U.S. military hopes to install a $40 million underwater fiber-optic cable that could improve communications at Guantanamo Bay, a military official said Thursday.
Another thing that just boggles the mind. Romney needs to bring this up and hit them hard on it. First, they have this idea of shutting Gitmo down. A few years in, we have the complete opposite. No shut down, but turning the place in to a damn resort
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