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**swoluelvede** · 08-03-2011, 02:54 PM

Mh.

Like everytime a decision is made, I wondered where it came from. And so I began reading...

(NYT - Administration Prepares to Lift Ban...)
But last month, Congress made it much harder to move Guantánamo detainees into the United States, even for trials in federal civilian courthouses. That essentially shut the door for now on the administration’s proposal to transfer inmates to a prison in Illinois and its desire to prosecute some of them in regular court. (NYT - Obama Signs Bill That May Hinder...)
WASHINGTON — President Obama signed a major defense bill on Friday that includes strict new limits on the government’s ability to transfer detainees out of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He sharply criticized those restrictions, but did not claim that he had the constitutional authority to disregard them.

Before the signing of the bill, Mr. Obama’s aides had deliberated over how he should handle the restrictions, which will make it harder to achieve his goal of closing the prison. He was considered unlikely to veto the bill because it also authorizes billions of dollars for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. I can't deny that his last decision will keep the prison open for a long time, and I actually observe that the recent decisions made, in January, already took that direction. It is certain that the administration's strategy to close it would have taken a lot more time anyway but I also can't deny this possibility, that the bill signed at the beginning of January 2011 could be linked to this new decision. It made the strategy harder, so even if the strategy wasn't sound to begin with, to the least it precipitated the decision.
Anyway, whatever the cause it's an admittance of failure. A chance that the foreign medias may not care... too busy with civil wars and revolutions.

08-03-2011, 02:54 PM	#9
swoluelvede Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 358 Senior Member	Mh. Like everytime a decision is made, I wondered where it came from. And so I began reading... (NYT - Administration Prepares to Lift Ban...) But last month, Congress made it much harder to move Guantánamo detainees into the United States, even for trials in federal civilian courthouses. That essentially shut the door for now on the administration’s proposal to transfer inmates to a prison in Illinois and its desire to prosecute some of them in regular court. (NYT - Obama Signs Bill That May Hinder...) WASHINGTON — President Obama signed a major defense bill on Friday that includes strict new limits on the government’s ability to transfer detainees out of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He sharply criticized those restrictions, but did not claim that he had the constitutional authority to disregard them. Before the signing of the bill, Mr. Obama’s aides had deliberated over how he should handle the restrictions, which will make it harder to achieve his goal of closing the prison. He was considered unlikely to veto the bill because it also authorizes billions of dollars for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. I can't deny that his last decision will keep the prison open for a long time, and I actually observe that the recent decisions made, in January, already took that direction. It is certain that the administration's strategy to close it would have taken a lot more time anyway but I also can't deny this possibility, that the bill signed at the beginning of January 2011 could be linked to this new decision. It made the strategy harder, so even if the strategy wasn't sound to begin with, to the least it precipitated the decision. Anyway, whatever the cause it's an admittance of failure. A chance that the foreign medias may not care... too busy with civil wars and revolutions.
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