Senate Panel Blocks Funding for Obama’s GTMO Closure Plan

[babylonsister]

http://washingtonindependent.com/85984/senate-panel-blocks-funding-for-obamas-gtmo-closure-plan

Senate Panel Blocks Funding for Obama’s GTMO Closure Plan
By Spencer Ackerman 5/28/10 12:29 PM


The Senate Armed Services Committee just released its summary text of the defense authorization bill it marked up last night. And look what the bill does, just like its House counterpart:

Eliminates availability of funding for the construction of a military detention facility in Thomson, Illinois.
Restricts the transfer of detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention facility to certain countries where Al Qaeda has an active presence.

The full text of the bill isn’t yet available. Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, last week floated that the money to buy Thomson — key to the administration’s plan to close Guantanamo Bay — could come from the Justice Department’s budget, which is still before the congressional judiciary committees.

[bluestateguy]

1. This is why I wish people would not saddle Obama with all of the blame here

You have a bunch of politicians trying to score cheap political points by demagoguing this policy from beginning to end, mucking things up at every step. Please blame them.

[Robbins]

2. I agree

Obama can't do everything.Gitmo Is prime example of COngress making things difficult for him.