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Obama to Close Gitmo — Where To Put the “High Value” Detainees?
Firedoglake —
... Anyway, one of the thorniest issues confronting the very smart people doing the detention center closing is where to put the detainees: ...
Juxtaposition: Bush, Obama, Gitmo, and the so-called War on Terror
The Reaction —
... Thankfully, too, there is your successor. He will likely balk at doing what ought to be done, namely, prosecuting the evildoers in your administration, but at the very least, the very least, he will close Gitmo, one of the symbols, and still an active one, of your wretchedness, hopefully sooner rather than later, and America and the world will be better for it, one of the first steps towards resurrecting America's moral standing and credibility. ...
Big Undoings
N/A —
Lots of people want to hit the Undo Bush Button. Congress on last minute administrative regulations. Obama on Gitmo. Sounds immediate. It isn’t.
The order won’t immediately close the prison, the people said.
It is the first step in what is expected to be a long process of determining what to do with the approximately 250 suspects and potential witnesses in the war on terror who are held at Guantanamo.
Closing a door takes a ...
Obama To Close Gitmo Whose Backyard Will They Go To
Rhymes With Right —
Hey, liberals in an effort to guarantee those who would destroy your liberties and murder you in your beds get rights accorded to no enemy captured in time of war anywhere in history, are you willing to volunteer YOUR town as a new home for the most dangerous of the illegal combatants capture during the Islamofascist jihad against the modern world and its freedoms? After all, Barry Hussein is going to order the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed even though he has no idea where to put these terrorists. Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama say one of his ...
Limbaugh responds to Price: ‘How the hell’ can Price say Powell is better for GOP than Cheney?
Think Progress —
... interrogations intact. … And [Price] says that Dick Cheney is not as good a Republican as Colin Powell is?
Watch it:
The question now is if Price will, like other Republicans before him, deliver a mea culpa for publicly disagreeing with El Rushbo. But disagreements within the conservative movement aside, the “Bush policy on Gitmo and interrogations” is by no means “intact.”
