rssHow Hard Is It To Close Guantanamo?
Monday, January 12, 2009 at 10:03 am
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President-elect Barack Obama seems to think it’s kind of hard to close Guantanamo Bay:
It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize and we are going to get it done but part of the challenge that you have is that you have a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom who may be very dangerous who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication.
Luckily, the Center for Constitutional Rights is going to come out with a report later today providing a specific path for shutting the detention facility down. Says executive director Vincent Warren:
“On the seventh anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees it turns out the single most important factor in determining who still remains at Guantánamo is nationality— whether we’re talking about the approximately 60 men who cannot be returned home and need other countries to take them in or about which countries have had the clout to get their people out. Closing the place down is not the great challenge it’s being made out to be. Let’s do it and be done with it.”
The report should be out by the afternoon. More later.
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Pingback posted January 12, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
[...] A very good start would be to close the prison at Guantánamo and also the gulag of “black” prisons in other countries. Obama is saying that closing Guantánamo is difficult—well, you asked for the job, Barack, so don’t start complaining already. Don’t tell us it’s difficult, tell us how you’re going to do it. Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent has a good post: [...]
Comment posted January 12, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
Blogger and human rights activist David Swanson will be my guest on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com at 5 PM New York time Wednesday January 14 to discuss president-elect Obama's pledge to close Guantanamo Bay and whether the U.S. human rights policies will improve under the new administration.
To talk to Swanson please go to http://www.garybaumgarten.com and click on the Join The Chat Room button.
Thanks,
Gary
Comment posted January 12, 2009 @ 9:19 pm
Blogger and human rights activist David Swanson will be my guest on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com at 5 PM New York time Wednesday January 14 to discuss president-elect Obama's pledge to close Guantanamo Bay and whether the U.S. human rights policies will improve under the new administration.
To talk to Swanson please go to http://www.garybaumgarten.com and click on the Join The Chat Room button.
Thanks,
Gary
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