Saturday, January 23, 2010

Guantanamo Bay is Still Open

Guantanamo Bay is still open, now past the deadline/promise set by Obama; not that I am complaining. I disagreed with its closing, and thought the time frame was naive. No word on a new deadline.

http://reason.com/blog/2010/01/22/happy-guantanamo-closing-day

"In case you missed the nonevent, the military prison for suspected terrorists and other assorted "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, did not close today. It may be years before it does, assuming President Obama ultimately delivers on that promise. In any case, the policy of keeping people locked up indefinitely without trial will continue, supplemented by a policy of keeping them locked up even if they are tried and acquitted. The New York Times reports that "the Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees...because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release.""

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