AP: White House Near Decision to Close Gitmo
Good news for all of those who believe that the US should close Guantanamo Bay ASAP:
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.
Senior administration officials said Thursday a consensus is building for a proposal to shut the center and transfer detainees to one or more Defense Department facilities, including the maximum-security military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where they could face trial.
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. “Senior officials have met on the issue in the past, and I expect they will meet on the issue in the future.”
The sooner the better. Guantanamo Bay is a gigantic mistake in US foreign policy / the war on terrorism. It has hurt America’s image tremendously.
It is good to see that the Bush administration seems to be working on plans to close it down.
I expect we’ll see a very public closing.
And an admistration or two down the road - a very quiet reopening.