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The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and will not replace him, according to an internal personnel announcement. Mr. Fried’s office is being closed, and his former responsibilities will be “assumed” by the office of the department’s legal adviser, the notice said.
The announcement that no senior official in President Obama’s second term will succeed Mr. Fried in working primarily on diplomatic issues aimed at repatriating or resettling detainees appeared to signal that the administration does not currently see the closing of the Guantánamo Bay prison as a realistic priority, despite repeated statements that it still intends to do so.
As recently as last week, when asked at a White House press briefing about the president’s first term promise to close Guantanamo Bay, Jay Carney reiterated the president’s promise: “As you know, the president remains committed to that. He agrees with military leaders as well as his immediate predecessor that we ought to do that. There are obviously obstacles in Congress to that, but we will continue to work towards that goal because he believes it’s in the best interests of our national security.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/339044/office-established-obama-intent-closing-gitmo-closes-patrick-brennan#
Remember when prisoner rights, habeas corpus, detainees never being charged with a crime, etc had one particular loud mouth here outraged with GWBush?
Today? Not so much.
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The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and will not replace him, according to an internal personnel announcement. Mr. Fried’s office is being closed, and his former responsibilities will be “assumed” by the office of the department’s legal adviser, the notice said.
The announcement that no senior official in President Obama’s second term will succeed Mr. Fried in working primarily on diplomatic issues aimed at repatriating or resettling detainees appeared to signal that the administration does not currently see the closing of the Guantánamo Bay prison as a realistic priority, despite repeated statements that it still intends to do so.
As recently as last week, when asked at a White House press briefing about the president’s first term promise to close Guantanamo Bay, Jay Carney reiterated the president’s promise: “As you know, the president remains committed to that. He agrees with military leaders as well as his immediate predecessor that we ought to do that. There are obviously obstacles in Congress to that, but we will continue to work towards that goal because he believes it’s in the best interests of our national security.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/339044/office-established-obama-intent-closing-gitmo-closes-patrick-brennan#
Remember when prisoner rights, habeas corpus, detainees never being charged with a crime, etc had one particular loud mouth here outraged with GWBush?
Today? Not so much.
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