Senate paralyzed on what to do about Guantanamo

[unhappycamper]

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/11/senate-paralyzed-what-do-about-guantanamo

Senate paralyzed on what to do about Guantanamo
By Bradley Klapper
The Associated Press
© November 19, 2013

WASHINGTON

Senators on Tuesday illustrated their paralysis over what to do with the Guantanamo Bay prison, voting down dueling bills to loosen and tighten restrictions on transferring detainees.

The result fails to significantly advance President Barack Obama's long-standing goal of closing the facility for terror suspects, but prevents rules from being inserted into the Senate's annual defense policy bill that would have made it even harder to try detainees in the United States or release them overseas.

Almost 12 years after its creation and almost five years since Obama vowed on his first day in office to close the prison, 164 suspects remain at the U.S. naval facility in Cuba. Restrictions imposed by Congress have brought transfers to a virtual standstill even though more than half the men there have been cleared for transfer.

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Total spending on Guantanamo amounts to $454 million a year, according to the Defense Department.

[Laelth]

1. Get rid of the filibuster.

Paralysis solved. Seems simple enough to me.



-Laelth

[Mass]

2. What was the rational for Wyden, Leahy, Warren, and Sanders to vote against the Levin amendment.

I could not quite get it.

[Blue Owl]

3. Close it.

Period.

[bemildred]

4. Shameful. nt