Bush Administration Nears Decision To Close Gitmo

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

By MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is nearing a decision
to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and move the terror
suspects there to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press
has learned.

President Bush’s national security and legal advisers are
expected to discuss the move at the White House on Friday and, for
the first time, it appears a consensus is developing, senior
administration officials said Thursday.

The advisers will consider a new proposal to shut the center and
transfer detainees to one or more Defense Department facilities,
including the maximum security military prison at Fort Leavenworth
in Kansas, where they could face trial, said the officials. They
spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing
internal deliberations.

Read more: http://cbs5.com/topstories/topstories_story_172173626.html

[Fridays Child]

1. And do what with all of the detainees?

:scared:

[silvershadow]

11. according to CNN

they just said last hour that the detainees will be transrerred to military prison camps. On edit: I don't know if they told where or not.

[Kajsa]

2. Oh, I hope it's true!

It sounds too good to believe.

[pretty_lies]

3. Play "Guess Which News Item They're Trying To Distract From"

My guess is on the poll showing Bush is as unpopular as Nixon.

[DemoTex]

9. Gen. Taguba's Abu Ghraib testimony.

[PATRICK]

4. Unlikely

without the ability to clear out the condmened with secret trials, executions, etc. Who is he making a deal with to get away with turning them loose? That means they have other means of sequestering them and simply are moving away from the hot spot to other clever locations to start the game all over again.

Besides, they need that space for the Cuban plan.

[Miss Chybil]

5. They are probably going to move them within our borders and place them under the

jurisdiction of our courts as their plan of working outside our justice system has failed.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

6. Link

here:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/21/america/NA-GEN-US-Guantanamo.php

[karlrschneider]

7. He just can't recall where he put his Magic Eight Ball.

:eyes:

[DemoTex]

8. Bu$hco knows the Abu Ghraib cover-up is about to blow sky high.

Closing the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp will be a last-ditch effort to save their sorry asses. Too little, too late.

[fishnfla]

10. Can you believe a lil' thing like the constitution got in their way?

gol-damn

[David Zephyr]

12. Bush will be tried internationally at some point in the future. He's covering his tracks.

Destroying the evidence of torture.

[Socal31]

13. "Bush will be tried internationally"

Realistically, no. I'm sorry. Call me any name you want, but I am a realist.

[Eugene]

14. Reuters: Decision on Guantanamo not imminent, U.S. says

Source: Reuters

Decision on Guantanamo not imminent, U.S. says
22 Jun 2007 01:26:14 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Caren Bohan

WASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) - A White House meeting
on the future of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay
is no longer on the schedule for Friday, an official said
after news reports that the Bush administration was nearing
agreement on closing the controversial facility.

U.S. officials tried to play down the idea that a decision
was close, although they reiterated President George W.
Bush's stated desire to shut the detention center.

Critics, including some of Washington's allies, have called
for Guantanamo to be closed and said the indefinite
detention of terrorism suspects there infringed their human
rights.

"No decisions on the future of Guantanamo Bay are imminent,"
said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. "The president
has long expressed a desire to close the Guantanamo Bay
detention facility and to do so in a responsible way."

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21409215.htm

[Eugene]

15. CNN: Guantanamo meeting canceled after report closure is near

Source: CNN

Guantanamo meeting canceled after report closure is near
POSTED: 0302 GMT (1102 HKT), June 21, 2007

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Friday meeting about Guantanamo canceled; no word on reason
  for cancellation
• AP reported Thursday the Bush administration "nearing decision"
  to close center
• Pentagon and White House deny any plans to shut it down
• There are about 375 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, according to
  the Pentagon

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A White House meeting planned for Friday
about the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been
canceled after The Associated Press reported the Bush administration
was "nearing a decision" to close the center.

National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said there would
be no meeting Friday, but he would not comment on the reasons for
the cancellation

Earlier Thursday, AP reported that officials were close to a decision
to shut down the facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and that the
administration had scheduled a meeting to discuss a proposal to transfer
the detainees to other military prisons.

Officials from the White House, the Pentagon and the Justice and State
departments denied the AP report.

-snip-

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/21/guantanamo