Was the Hit on Bin Laden Illegal?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Baloney. The troops at Gitmo could supplement any of several military detention units in the US. Flights go in and out of Gitmo all the time. Perhaps there would be cost saving in the end by eliminating duplication of effort.

You need to keep up with them news if you want to participate.

Senate pulls Gitmo closure funding

The 90-6 roll call follows similar action in the House last week, and Obama is left with no new money to go forward on a signature issue for him — and less flexibility than when he first made his request this spring.

All of $80 million related to the Guantanamo closing has now been stripped from a wartime spending bill moving through Congress, and the Senate amendment indefinitely bars the use of any federal funds to “transfer, release or incarcerate” Guantanamo detainees “to or within the United States.”

[Ban Hammer 12,836]

also from bd's link......

In closing remarks, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Obama’s failure to present more of a plan upfront “fell smack dab into the trap” of allowing opponents to define the issue as one where the administration would be releasing detainees into communities around the nation.

even a leading democrat blames obama for this failure.......

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You need to keep up with them news if you want to participate.

At the time this article refers to (2009), if Obama wanted to close Gitmo, he could as CIC. I would love to see Congress try to take the President to task for such an obvious Executive function. Congress can continue to fund the place, but the President can take the troops wherever he wants, and remove the detainees to any garden spot in the world his generous heart desires.

Now that it is two years later, what recent news do you have of the President's endeavors to close the place?

A special executive task force is slated to report in July (2009), shedding more light on how the Defense and Justice departments would carry out the closing by next January (2010).

Edited May 12, 2011 by Some Old Guy

[spookyturtle 9,465]

What are you homos fighting about now? bin Laden is dead.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

U.S. will still close Guantanamo Bay

The Obama administration still intends to close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday, who said plans will likely not be altered by the killing of Osama bin Laden.

“Although we have not closed Guantanamo within the time period that we initially indicated … it is still the intention of the president, and it is still my intention, to close the facility that exists in Guantanamo,” he said in Paris at a joint press conference with French Interior Minister Claude Gueant. “We will continue our efforts in that regard.”

When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, he promised to close the facility before the end of his first year in office and move the detainees who couldn’t be released to prisons in the United States. That plan hit some snags as Congress voted later that year to block funding to transfer or release detainees from the facility, and many in Obama’s liberal base have grown angry of his failure to follow through on what was a key 2008 campaign promise.

In fact, Holder said, “We think that by closing that facility the national security of the United States will be enhanced.”

The attorney general added that he did not see the killing of Osama bin Laden changing attitudes about the prison in any substantial way. “I’m not sure that the death of bin Laden will have an impact on the timing of the closure,” he said, responding to a question about how the Al Qaeda leader’s death would alter the timeline for the facility’s closure.

“Many of those who have opposed the closure of Guantanamo within the United States have done so on a basis that I’m not sure is affected by the death of Bin Laden.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54602.html#ixzz1M6SEfR7D

[SuperDuper! 230]

Here's an idea, stick to the thread topic, hammerheads.

So, was it ok to kill Bin Laden? YES.

Was it ok for him to hatch a plan that killed 3000 people just because they went to work one fateful morning? NO.

He reaped what he sowed and needed to be taken out before he masterminded another evil plan.

It's perfectly legal to kill a killer so he does not come and kill your family.

We could have put his head on a stick and paraded him around ground zero, but did not.

Anyone who sticks up for him is an enemy of the state.

Word!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

U.S. will still close Guantanamo Bay

The Obama administration still intends to close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday, who said plans will likely not be altered by the killing of Osama bin Laden.

“Although we have not closed Guantanamo within the time period that we initially indicated … it is still the intention of the president, and it is still my intention, to close the facility that exists in Guantanamo,” he said in Paris at a joint press conference with French Interior Minister Claude Gueant. “We will continue our efforts in that regard.”

When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, he promised to close the facility before the end of his first year in office and move the detainees who couldn’t be released to prisons in the United States. That plan hit some snags as Congress voted later that year to block funding to transfer or release detainees from the facility, and many in Obama’s liberal base have grown angry of his failure to follow through on what was a key 2008 campaign promise.

In fact, Holder said, “We think that by closing that facility the national security of the United States will be enhanced.”

The attorney general added that he did not see the killing of Osama bin Laden changing attitudes about the prison in any substantial way. “I’m not sure that the death of bin Laden will have an impact on the timing of the closure,” he said, responding to a question about how the Al Qaeda leader’s death would alter the timeline for the facility’s closure.

“Many of those who have opposed the closure of Guantanamo within the United States have done so on a basis that I’m not sure is affected by the death of Bin Laden.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54602.html#ixzz1M6SEfR7D

We are still going to close it. Someday. When we get around to it. Kind of like that unfinsihed porch on the back of the trailer.