BREAKING CNN: GITMO MAY BE CLOSED!

[originalpckelly]

:wow:

Here is an article just released 6 minutes ago from WashingtonPost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062101664.html

They are going to be transferred into the US! Maybe they'll get a shot at a fair trial? That might be too much to worry about.

[originalpckelly]

1. The Bush Administration is reported to have reached a consensus that GITMO should be closed!

:wow:

Will give link when available.

[BurtWorm]

7. After reading Seymour Hersh's latest in the New Yorker, no doubt.

:eyes:

[MessiahRp]

24. Hmmm.. is Gitmo being closed because of the torture or because Moore exposed their health care?

The last thing Bush wants to be known as is someone who gives out "socialized medicine" to anyone. He doesn't mind the torturer label in the least.

Rp

[BurtWorm]

2. For the Fourth of July?

:patriot:

[originalpckelly]

When CNN puts up the article I will give more info.

[originalpckelly]

12. Nix that, found a WaPo via google news about this.

[blondeatlast]

20. SF Chronicle link downthread as well. nt

[Lex]

3. Moved to a more secret location no doubt.

/cynical

[glowing]

11. I was thinking the same thing... the no bid contractors must have

finished the secret concentration camp to move the detainees to.

[Phredicles]

13. Gotta be - the only way they do is is if they have someplace worse;

these people NEVER do what's right, not even under duress. So if what they do appears to be the right thing to do, there must be some truly hideous catch they're not telling us about.

[proud patriot]

4. whaaaaa ?

:woohoo:

[RufusTFirefly]

5. What? As soon as the firing squad is finished? n/t

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

6. More info please

Is this just speculation?

[originalpckelly]

9. I can't say without an article from CNN. Only then can I post.

I will when they put it up. I am expecting a banner on their site at least in a few minutes.

[DS1]

8. I'll BET ANYONE HERE THIS HAS TO DO WITH CHENEY and his Non-Executive Office Declaration

[originalpckelly]

14. Oh my, I didn't think of that. I wonder if we are approaching zero hour for some take over.

:scared:

[babylonsister]

15. How about Taguba and his scathing report? Getting rid of evidence? nt

[originalpckelly]

17. I agree, there is no good motive behind this. Presence of the Dark Side do I feel.

Scared I am, the Dick have returned. Always two there are, a master and an apprentice. The question before us is who is the master and who is the apprentice?

[fishnfla]

10. Holy shit! Watch out

They are gonna nuke that bay-nothing left

[rusty charly]

16. Then they should close the White House too,

more terrorists there than anywhere else.

[blondeatlast]

18. SF Chronicle, 20 minutes ago: They are planning to move the detainees elsewhere...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/21/national/w143721D82.DTL&type=politics

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.

[blondeatlast]

19. Possibly Leavenworth, possibly actual trials according to article:

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.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/21/national/w143721D82.DTL&type=politics

[fishnfla]

22. Lets hear it for the lawyers and activist judges!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They saved the day on this one folks


Kee-rist someone gets the constitution, and the Geneva convention, after all

[elehhhhna]

21. "Scene of Crimes to be Cleaned Up of Evidence" & another advantage to the BA :

We can't make them serve sentences in GITMO if it's closed.

[Rick Myers]

23. How many BILLION did that little constitutional experiment cost???

:grr::grr::grr:

[TransitJohn]

32. slight edit:

extra-constitutional

[Poiuyt]

25. Bush will just move them to an empty prison somewhere in Europe

[kestrel91316]

26. You DO realize they will just be shipped off to some secret

torture base in Romania or Nicaragua or wherever??

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Mauritania:

I was told by the former senior intelligence official and a government consultant that after the existence of secret C.I.A. prisons in Europe was revealed, in the Washington Post, in late 2005, the Administration responded with a new detainee center in Mauritania. After a new government friendly to the U.S. took power, in a bloodless coup d'état in August, 2005, they said, it was much easier for the intelligence community to mask secret flights there.

Seymour Hersh: The General's Report

It's always handy to have a friendly government that's not accountable to its populace, for those occasions when you need to do things in the dark.

[tom_paine]

41. Those Buishies are getting good at bloodless coups

Lots of good job with benefits for interrogators, torturers, and doctors to make sure they don't die.

[Up2Late]

27. Eventually.

Yes, of course it will be shut eventually, but probably not before January 20, 2009, say around Noon-ish.

"The advisers will consider a proposal to shut the center and transfer detainees to one or more Defense Department facilities..."

[spanone]

34. Also, don't forget to destroy any and all records pertaining to all things Gitmo.

[Up2Late]

44. Humm, I wonder if we should start monitoring the sales figures for companies...

...who make Paper Shredders! I bet the the market will suddenly get "very tight" in the 2nd half of 2008.

I wonder if their is any way to monitor how much shredded paper is being "output" by the Federal Government around that time? :think:

[blondeatlast]

28. Two articles posted--one in the OP, one in post 20. Please read at least one of them. nt

[spanone]

29. Must hide the evidence before leaving office.

[TransitJohn]

31. I just had to go outside with my shovel

...to clean up all the pigshit falling all over my yard.

[gatorboy]

37. Self delete

[malaise]

33. If this is true score a big one

for the Dems. That November election has teeth.

[Straight Shooter]

35. I believe the restoration of habeas corpus has had an effect on the Gitmo situation.

Indeed, score a mighty one for the Dems. :thumbsup:

[malaise]

36. Shout this from the rooftops Dems

Great news.

[blondeatlast]

43. Alas--they aren't going to discuss it now that the news has broken.

WaPO article in the OP has been updated.

BASTARDS.

[gatorboy]

38. Yeah but NBC reported earlier that when the WH got wind of this,

They flatly denied a closing any time soon.

[opihimoimoi]

39. After spending $$$783.7 Million we gonna close it? What a friggen WASTE

[Jack Rabbit]

40. I'm really not impressed

If the Geneva conventions are to be observed throughout Mr. Bush's offshore gulags, then I'll be impressed.

[blondeatlast]

42. Never mind... Since the news broke, it won't be discussed after all...

President Bush's national security and legal advisers had been scheduled to discuss the move at a meeting Friday, the officials said, but after news of it broke, the White House said the meeting would not take place that day and no decision on Guantanamo Bay's status is imminent.

"It's no longer on the schedule for tomorrow," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. ii]"Senior officials have met on the issue in the past, and I expect they will meet on the issue in the future."

[thereismore]

45. Maybe they'll get shot at a County Fair.

rather than "Maybe they'll get a shot at a fair trial".