President-elect Barack Obama speaks to reporters during his meeting with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, not pictured, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)From Yahoo News/AP:
WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office — and perhaps his first day — to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers.
It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.
But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 al-Qaida and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there. Most have not been charged with a crime.
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My Comment: President-elect Obama is reversing from his comments on ABC News yesterday when he mentioned that closing Guantanamo will take longer than what is expected.
Sigh .... the implications have been discussed here before .... closing Guantanamo will put many of these dangerous men in legal limbo since they could not be convicted in the American court system. It also puts the legal framework on the entire war effort on terror into question.
Enough said .... I will wait until I actually see the executive order to comment on it.
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