Wednesday, June 4, 2014

GLENN GREENWALD: What Excuse Remains for Obama’s Failure to Close GITMO?

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/06/03/excuse-remains-obamas-failure-close-gitmo/

The excuse-making on behalf of President Obama has always found its most extreme form when it came time to explain why he failed to fulfill his oft-stated 2008 election promise to close Guantanamo. As I’vedocumented many times, even the promise itself was misleading, as it became quickly apparent that Obama — even in the absence of congressional obstruction — did not intend to “close GITMO” at all butrather to re-locate it, maintaining its defining injustice of indefinite detention.

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