OBAMA PASSES GUANTANAMO BUCK TO CONGRESS
Posted in Uncategorized by Baba - Mar 01, 2016
Barack Hussein Obama has checked-off another campaign promise from his list of things to do. As his second and final term in office reaches its final year, and his legacy is being written, he needs to make good the promise to close Guantánamo that he made seven years ago, on his second day in office in January 2009.
He has thrown the ball into Congress’ court.
The problem is that he has given Congress nothing but a vague Executive Order– https://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ClosureOfGuantanamoDetentionFacilities — which he invoked in January of 2009, Apparently Obama expects Congress to complete and approve his “plan”.
Barack’s plan specifies nothing conclusive about fundamental questions like:
- What potential locations for new facilities are to be considered?
- What is the projected cost of this action?
- Which of the 91 remaining detainees will be transferred to the U.S.?
- What will control the policy regarding future detainees?
Try as he might, this maneuver will fail, just like his presidency.
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