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AP Source: Democrats won't fund Guantanamo closing
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate Guantanamo's 241 detainees. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the proposed changes to the bill were to be unveiled later. The administration has yet to develop a plan for what to do with the detainees, and Obama's promise to close the facility is facing strong GOP opposition. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090519/ap_on_go_co/us_cong...
Keeping People Imprisoned is Expensive, But Releasing Them? Now You're Talking Real Money
Hit & Run —
A new snag for Obama's Guantanamo closing plans: his Democratic pals in the Senate might not appropriate any money for it. From AP: the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January, a top Democratic official said Tuesday. With debate looming on Obama's spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate Guantanamo's 240 detainees.That doesn't mean if won't ...
Gitmo detainees joke: ‘At least Bush released people.’
Newshoggers.com —
... whether they were combatants or civilians, and because the Bush administration equated Taliban foot soldiers with al-Qaeda terrorists) the cases against them are, for the most part, built on a web of lies produced by prisoners who were tortured, coerced or bribed into making false confessions, and on a “mosaic” of intelligence that is based on second- or third-hand hearsay, guilt by association and unsupportable suppositions.
That would be logical, yes - but then partisan politics and the Democrat's urge to cave gets involved.
President ...
Surprise: Senate Dems cancel funding to close Gitmo
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... a week ago. I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t grasp the politics of this initially because I didn’t think they’d cave so quickly to the pro-Gitmo side; after watching them cave on waterboarding after 9/11 and then the Iraq war, I should have known they’d buckle once another tough security decision landed on their desks. They still want to close it — eventually , just like ...
They never learn
Political Animal —
... NEVER LEARN.... At some point a few weeks ago, Republicans decided that the closing of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was a political winner. They'd rant and rave about the Obama administration putting terrorists in U.S. "neighborhoods," and Democrats, the theory goes, would back away from a sensible policy. The argument was absurd, of course, and I'd hoped congressional Democrats would ignore the fearmongering. It looks like the minority party still knows exactly how to push the majority party's buttons . President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not ...
Democrats won't fund Guantanamo closing
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... to defend a plan that hasn't been announced. And the administration said, 'Understood. Give us time to put together that plan and we'll come to you in the next appropriations bill.'" The developments on Capitol Hill came as the Pentagon said it still expects the prison at Guantanamo Bay to be closed by January 2010 as Obama has ordered. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters on Tuesday that he sees nothing to indicate the January 2010 deadline will be delayed. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090519/ap_on_go_co/us_cong...
Dems Balk at Closing Gitmo
Weekly Standard Blog —
It's amazing what a little accountability will do for you:
President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January, a top Democratic official said Tuesday.
With debate looming on Obama's spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate Guantanamo's 240 detainees....
It appears to be a tactical retreat. Once the administration ...
Fierce Moral Urgency
Neptunus Lex —
Not all that, as it turns out.
President Barack Obama’s allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison until the administration comes up with a satisfactory plan for transferring the detainees held there, top Democrats said Tuesday. And in a further break with Obama, the Senate’s top Democrat said he opposes transferring any Guantanamo prisoners to the United States for their trials or to serve their sentences. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said 50 to ...
Harry Reid Supports Denying Prisoners Their Habeas Corpus
Ramblings of a Rising Media Star: Mitchell Blatt Blog —
... The Democrats position on Guantanamo Bay is that they don’t want terrorists to be held in Guantanamo Bay but they don’t want terrorists to be held in Ameirca. The Democrats today denied funding for costs related to closing Guantanamo Bay until they can come up with another foreign country to leave detainees indefinitely without habeas corpus. ...
Column: Psst… Democrats Do Support National Security… Just Don’t Tell Anyone…
Ramblings of a Rising Media Star: Mitchell Blatt Blog —
... had a favorable opinion of Reid and that 65% would strongly consider voting against him in 2010.
In 2007, Reid blamed George Bush for Congress’s poor approval ratings because Bush “reflect[ed] poorly on Congress.”
Now Reid has no one to blame but himself.
Sources
Abu Zubaydah Profile
Reid Doesn’t Want Detainees in US Prisons
Now Reid Does Want Detainees in US Prisons
Uighurs Trained by al Qaeda
Congress Votes Against Closing Gitmo
2007 Habeas Corpus Vote ...
