Report: Obama to Break Campaign Pledge, Will Restart Gitmo Military Trials…

March 7, 2011 by admin

Leftist meltdown in 3..2..1…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that President Barack Obama is approving the resumption of military trials for detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ending a two-year ban.

A senior military official says Obama will issue an executive order Monday. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will rescind his January 2009 ban against bringing new cases against the terror suspects at the detention facility.

Obama vowed when he took office to close the detention facility at Guantanamo, but officials have recently acknowledged that closure is not likely because of questions about where terror suspects would be held.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been made public.

Obama Taking His Time Getting Rid of ‘Terrorist Recruitment Tool’

March 1, 2011 by admin

Obama Taking His Time Getting Rid of ‘Terrorist Recruitment Tool’

Attorney General Eric Holder is the latest Obama-administration official to indicate that the president has no intention of closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center anytime soon. At a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee today, Holder told lawmakers that he had no clue when the prison would be shut down:

US Attorney Gen. Eric Holder told members of the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday “I don’t know” when asked if the detention center at Guantanamo Bay will close by the end of the president’s first term.

He was not the first high ranking member of the Obama administration to admit things weren’t going well in efforts to find an alternative to Gitmo for dealing with top terrorists.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates admitted last month that the United States has no contingency plans for detaining and trying Osama bin Laden if he were captured, saying, “the honest answer to that is, we don’t know.”

If Osama bin Laden is captured, Holder said that a committee would decide where he would be held and tried.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay immediately upon taking office. But with his 2012 re-election campaign right around the corner, he still hasn’t made good on his vow.

Recall that the president has often framed the need to close Guantanamo Bay as a national-security issue, calling the detention center a terrorist-recruitment tool. “It is a rallying cry for terrorist recruitment and harmful to our national security, so closing it is important for our national security,” Obama said in 2009.

But for something that’s supposedly so detrimental to our national security, Obama seems to be in no hurry to get rid of it.