Military Tribunals Make Closing Gitmo A Receding Goal

Photo: A courtroom at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Mark Wilson / Getty

From Time Magazine:

The prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is an ever more embarrassing problem for President Barack Obama. Once a powerful campaign line, the idea of closing the prison is now such a source of heated political debate on Capitol Hill and such a complex legal challenge that the Administration is unlikely to meet its self-imposed deadline of shutting the place down by late January 2010.

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My Comment: They are not even close to closing Guantanamo prison properly and on time. Election rhetoric getting ahead of common sense is what has put the Obama administration in the embarrassing situation that it finds itself today. The only thing left is to designate who is responsible for this fiasco, and then have they fired.

Of course ..... President Obama will not be blamed.