{"id":21439,"date":"2010-12-08T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T15:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21439"},"modified":"2010-12-08T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T15:55:42","slug":"congress-wont-close-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21439","title":{"rendered":"Congress won’t close Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"

This ought to reverberate through the anti-war and the Amnesty International crowd – the Democrats rolled out the omnibus spending bill today without funds to close Guantanamo and move the “detainees” to the US according to the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The massive spending bill Democrats released early Wednesday morning would prohibit the Obama administration from spending any money either to transfer detainees to the United States or to buy a replacement prison in the United States, as Mr. Obama had planned.<\/p>\n

Prohibiting spending effectively stops the administration from acting over the next year, and with Republicans about to take control of the House in January, his chances are virtually zero that Congress will relent any time before the president stands for re-election in 2012.<\/p>\n

The bill, which will be voted on over the next week or so, explicitly prohibits the transfer of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey, I’m not complaining, I’m just pointing out that the Democrats whined for eight years about Guantanamo and now the first time they can do something about it, they fall on their faces. It’s the same with the PATRIOT Act and the myriad other things (tax cuts?) they cried crocodile tears over that they’re unwilling to be responsible for now.<\/p>\n

I guess it couldn’t have anything to do with a report released Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Bill Gertz of the Washington Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

The report, made public Tuesday, stated that out of a total of 598 detainees released as of October, 150 were confirmed or suspected of “reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities after transfer,” the two-page unclassified summary said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s almost as it Bush was right all along, isn’t it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This ought to reverberate through the anti-war and the Amnesty International crowd – the Democrats rolled … Congress won’t close Guantanamo<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,89,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks","category-do-you-miss-me-yet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}