Guantanamo Splits Administration: Gitmo taken off agenda after leak to AP

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Guantanamo Splits Administration
Arguments Center on How to Handle Remaining Detainees
By Josh White and Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 22, 2007; Page A03

Senior Bush administration officials are engaged in active discussions about closing the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but deep divisions remain regarding the fate of the approximately 375 foreign detainees currently held there should the prison close, according to numerous officials familiar with the ongoing dialogue.

President Bush has stated publicly his desire to shut down the facility, which has drawn significant criticism and has damaged the United States' reputation internationally. But debates over the legal implications and logistical hurdles to closing Guantanamo have highlighted the difficulties of such a move. Despite rising interest among the highest levels of the administration to resolve this issue before the end of Bush's presidency, viable alternatives have proved elusive, officials said yesterday.

Key discussions have centered on how to repatriate roughly 75 remaining detainees who have been cleared for release or transfer, how to put roughly 80 detainees on trial following major failures in the Military Commissions Act, and where to indefinitely hold an additional 220 detainees the government deems too dangerous to release. While there have been preliminary talks of bringing them to military detention centers in the United States, there has been significant opposition from Vice President Cheney as well as from the Justice and Homeland Security departments, and officials said yesterday that they are not on the brink of a decision....

The Associated Press reported yesterday that a meeting of several top Bush administration officials about Guantanamo's future was scheduled for today, but the White House denied such a meeting was taking place. Two administration officials said last night that a meeting about several topics is scheduled for today but that the Guantanamo issue was removed from the agenda after news of the meeting broke....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062102341.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[frogcycle]

1. why don't they just execute them?

if we can knowingly kill seven kids in an airstrike and shrug it off, what they hell is the big hangup? If the president says its ok, then its not illegal or anything. Hell, let him stuff firecrackers up their butts and watch them splatter. He needs a laugh, what with those poll numbers and all.






oh yeah, for the mind-numbingly dense:
:sarcasm:

[lonestarnot]

2. And we have certainly caused the torture of little helpless orphans.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1151144

[frogcycle]

3. just thinking of ways to play games with that headline...

"Guantanamo Splits Administration: Gitmo taken off agenda after leak to AP"

Something about:

Administration taken a leak

or

Guantanamo splits, taken AP



maybe I need to go to bed.

g'nite

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. Just cut the headline to "Guano Administration" .. that fits them just fine.

In Spanish, guano = bat shit! They're all a bunch of batshit crazy crooks in the White House.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. A.M. kick -- this article confirms leak to AP, and Gitmo taken off the agenda. nt

[blondeatlast]

6. I still don't get why they'd take it off of the agenda because it was made public?

I was watching WaPo and the SFChronicle's coverage very closely on this story and saw that discussion had been put off.

I'm supposing that we'll hear that it would embolden the terrorists if they knew. Yrah, doing the right thing just infuriates those terrorists... :eyes: