White House allies say Obama bungled Guantanamo closing

[sabra]

Source: mcclatchy

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's decision to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan. 22 was followed by a series of mistakes and missteps by his administration that will delay the prison's closure for months, according to a report from a policy organization with close ties to the White House.

Those mistakes - which ranged from initially having too few people on board to handle the workload to misreading Congress - have put the timetable months behind schedule and will push the prison's closure well beyond the January deadline, which Obama announced with great fanfare two days after he took office.

The White House declined to comment on the report.

The administration is expected to announce within days the results of its review of legal cases against the remaining detainees at Guantanamo, a review that originally was scheduled to be finished in July. Among its conclusions, the administration is expected to say whether it will prosecute the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and four alleged co-conspirators in a federal civilian court.

"We hope we'll see the announcement very soon on the 9/11 case, that they're going to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other conspirators in federal court," said Ken Gude, a scholar at the Center for American Progress and the author of its new report on Guantanamo. The liberal policy organization enjoys close relations with the Obama administration, which has hired several of its scholars for senior positions.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1328375.html

[FrenchieCat]

1. Funny! misread Congress ? Hell, Congress didn't know that it was going to oppose

until the media started with their talking points to affect public opinion.

But yeah.....let's blame the President for the Congress being afraid of their own shadows! :mad:

[Equality 7-2521]

2. There Right!

He should have brought them to a military court and jail in the states.
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[chollybocker]

3. It's an AP story.

'nuff said. :eyes:

[EFerrari]

4. sabra, your link has 404'd.