> Obama admin did try to push on it for quite a while before apparently concluding they'd dumped enough time and capital into it.
I voted for Obama, but sadly on this issue, he has been mostly a disappointment, to put it mildly. The great Glen Greenwald over at Salon.com recently wrote: "Obama -- for reasons having nothing to do with Congress -- worked from the start to preserve the crux of the Bush/Cheney detention regime. Even with these new added levels of detention review (all inside the Executive Branch), this new Executive Order is little more than a by-product of that core commitment, and those blaming it on Congress either have little idea what they're talking about or are simply fabricating excuses in order to justify yet another instance where Obama dutifully "bolsters" the Bush War on Terror template."[1]
This latest Wikileaks revelation is shameful, and for awhile I bought into the idea that Congress prevented Obama from closing Gitmo. I am no longer convinced.
I voted for Obama, but sadly on this issue, he has been mostly a disappointment, to put it mildly. The great Glen Greenwald over at Salon.com recently wrote: "Obama -- for reasons having nothing to do with Congress -- worked from the start to preserve the crux of the Bush/Cheney detention regime. Even with these new added levels of detention review (all inside the Executive Branch), this new Executive Order is little more than a by-product of that core commitment, and those blaming it on Congress either have little idea what they're talking about or are simply fabricating excuses in order to justify yet another instance where Obama dutifully "bolsters" the Bush War on Terror template."[1]
This latest Wikileaks revelation is shameful, and for awhile I bought into the idea that Congress prevented Obama from closing Gitmo. I am no longer convinced.
[1] http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/08...