NPR: White House Denies Talk of Closing Guantanamo

[Kadie]

White House Denies Talk of Closing Guantanamo

NPR.org, June 22, 2007 ·

The Bush administration was insisting Friday that there was no imminent decision on closing the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee center despite reports that a plan was being reviewed to shutter the facility used to hold alleged terrorists.

But senior officials have told The Associated Press that consensus was building for a plan to shut Guantanamo and send its inmates to one or more military prisons in America, including the top-security prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

According to the AP, a meeting of top officials on Guantanamo was planned for Friday but was called off when word leaked.

"It's no longer on the schedule for tomorrow," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. "Senior officials have met on the issue in the past, and I expect they will meet on the issue in the future."

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[Norquist Nemesis]

1. What will Mitt and Guiliani have to hang their hats on!!!???

Romney was spouting he'd double Gitzmo. LOL!

From the news commentaries I've heard about it, it sounds like the decision has been made to close it but the logistics plan has to be hammered out. (We've all experienced the outstanding planning abilities of the Bushetals!) It was shocking to hear that their plan so far is to pare the number of detainees down to about 100 of the worst, then (GET THIS!) build a prison in AFGHANISTAN to house them!

[underpants]

3. When I saw this yesterday I thought it was a balloon they sent up to test the winds

or to see if they were right about the political winds because frankly it looks like they lost the rudder and the mainsail (26% and all).

Move it to Afghanistan? And do what dig a 5 mile moat AND put it on top of a mountain AND under a dome? That is nuts. That would be the biggest magnet you could imagine.

Sounds to me that they are just out of it. Not over mind you just frazzled and gasping for air.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Yes! It's amazing isn't it?

Afghanistan! (don't have time at the moment to google which show I saw this on)

The Bushetals are really in a pickle on this one. They've been sternly telling us that Gitmo detainees all want to kill us. These are the "worst of the worst! All murderous terrorists!" Okay...so, Gates comes in and says shut'er down only to be overridden. Then, we learn they're shutt'n 'er down but can't decide what to do with the "detainees" (not quite the emotion provoking visual as "TERRORISTS! AL QAEDA!", but hey...).

They can't put them in U.S. prisons; each and every one of them would have to go through due process and be able to describe in details their experiences of torture. They have to be moved to foreign soil...where, oh where, oh where...what to do, what to do! Why, the country of a weak government that everyone has forgotten about of course! Call Halliburton! We got some construction needs on a battlefield to hold --get ready for a new category that covers Prisoners of War. *sigh* :banghead:

This is so unbelievably uspide down and whacked sideways!

[underpants]

5. Just when we thought Dick's "I am not in the government" bit was too weird

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2890329&mesg_id=2890329

[SoCalDem]

2. They WILL close it down before they leave office.

The soldiers who are/were there will hold their tongues, but the *² admin CANNOT afford to have a democratic admin snooping around and asking questions of the "detainees". It would not take long to understand that the whole place is a sham....and was built to hide people away forever and keep 'murikans thinking we are catching the "bad-guys".

Those "detainees" will be spirited away to Mauritania, some of the 'stans, and spread out in other African shit-hole prisons, so no one can ever contact them after *² leaves office.