Friday, May 21, 2010

So Much For Closing Guantanamo


House Panel Rejects A Plan To Shift Detainees To Illinois -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee has dealt a blow to President Obama’s hopes to shutter the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by unanimously approving legislation that would prohibit creating a detention center inside the United States.

The administration had asked Congress to approve about $350 million to buy and renovate a nearly empty prison in Thomson, Ill. The White House plan was to empty Guantánamo and transfer its detainees to Illinois — including 48 who would be held without trial as wartime prisoners.

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My Comment:
When President Obama announced last year that his first executive order was to close Guantanamo prison .... I posted that I was very skeptical that such an order will be carried out. A year and a half later .... with little fanfare .... President Obama's fellow Democrats in Congress have killed this executive order.

What can I say but .... I told you so.

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