Detainees talk inside the open-air yard at the Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba, May 31. (Brennan Linsley/REUTERS/Pool) From the National Post:
U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – U.S. President Barack Obama won applause from the political left for his inauguration-week pledge to shutter the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay within a year.
But with less than six months to go before the January “deadline” for closure, administration officials have begun using language indicating even they don’t believe it can be done.
They now speak of the “goal” of meeting the deadline, as opposed to confidently referring to January as when the camps at the U.S. naval base in Cuba will be empty of terror suspects.
While the officials insist that European and other countries are on the verge of taking in a growing percentage of the remaining 229 detainees, the camps’ combined population has declined by only 13 since Obama’s January 20 inauguration.
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My Comment: It has been 6 months since President Obama's announcement on the closing of Guantanamo Bay .... and nothing has happened. My bet .... expect a flurry of announcements and decisions made in October/November that will illustrate how haphazard and sloppy the Obama Administration's approach to terror trials and detaining terror suspects has been
As much as the Bush administration left a mess for President Obama to clean up ..... President Obama's handling of this issue makes Bush's handling excellent in comparison.
My hope .... the proper focus from the White House will now be applied to Guantanamo, and a more realistic timetable on how to charge, release, return, or imprison the remaining detainees be laid out. Everything is still salvageable .... just leave the politics at the door.
More News On Guantanamo
Will Guantánamo close on time? -- Christian Science Monitor
Criminal Charges Against Detainee Weighed -- Washington Post
US drops case to detain young Guantanamo prisoner -- Reuters
Government Might Allow U.S. Trial for Detainee -- New York Times
Some Gitmo detainees may come to US jails -- AP
Obama Rejects U.N. Visits to Guantánamo -- AllGov
No lack of lawyers for Guantanamo detainees. -- Vancouver Sun
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