Obama Plans Guantanamo Deadline

Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP (Image taken from The Guardian)

From The BBC:

Barack Obama has said he aims to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre and put a clear end to torture in the US within two years of becoming president.

The president-elect told Time magazine he aims to restore the balance between US security needs and the Constitution.

Outgoing Vice-president Dick Cheney has said he does not see how the Guantanamo facility can be responsibly closed until the "war on terror" was over.

He also justified using water-boarding on some detainees during interrogation.

He said the technique, which simulates drowning, was an appropriate means of getting information out of suspects such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 11 September attacks on the US.

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Update: Vice President Cheney disagrees: Don't close Guantanamo until terror war ends: Cheney -- Reuters

My Comment: President-elect Obama has not provided an alternative. In addition, this intent has been booted 2 years down the road .... not now. Hmmmm .... a lot can happen in two years.