He froze prosecutions for 120 days so he would have time to determine what action to take. Allowing a year to close to the prison ensures it wil be done in an orderly fashion with all cases reviewed.
He needs the time because he only received access to the files regarding those being held yesterday because the previous administration has claimed the need to preserve the information as top secret. It has nothing to do with a honeymoon and everything to do with taking all the steps necessary to handle these cases in a way that will pass scrutiny by both the Supreme Court and the International Court, because sooner or later, that's where they are heading. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, but Obama is trying to have it both ways, as usual. He is issuing an > order to close the prison ... within a year. That's a long time. I think he > wants the issue to go away for awhile. He doesn't actually have to do > anything, just say we're going to close it. He is avoiding the difficult > argument of what to do with the remaining prisoners for now. He can't avoid > the tough decisions forever, and sooner rather than later he is going to > have to make some tough decisions. I guess he wants to keep the honeymoon > going for a little bit, and who can blame him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:286215 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
