The President, embroiled in several scandals undoubtedly of his own making, is finally taking some action: He's going to go ahead and close GITMO, the Guantanamo Naval Base prison for terrorists. He's doing so although Congress has voted its displeasure by refusing to fund the closure, which means he'll be taking the money from some other appropriation.
He has now chosen a well-known and high-powered attorney to head up the effort; Clifford Sloan is the pick to reopen the State Department's Office of
Guantanamo Closure, shuttered since January and folded into the
department's legal adviser's office when the administration, in the face
of congressional obstacles, effectively gave up its attempt to close
the prison. But, he's now bound and determined to make it happen and he doesn't gave a hoot about what the country thinks; despite the fact that previous transfers of prisoners to their home countries has resulted in their total release from captivity and return to terrorism, Obama intends to release all 86 of the remaining prisoners to their home countries. Many of them are notorious for their outrageous acts of terrorism.
Frankly, I take it as an outright dare from him for us to try and do something about it.
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