Why hasn't Barack Obama closed the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay?

[TheKentuckian]

39. He needed special appropriation for the new Gitmo North facility

He did not need any special appropriations to relocate the prisoners to existing Federal facilities or to schedule court proceedings.

Bush did just that on hundreds of occasions, Congress does contol the purse strings but they don't appropriate individual transfers or dictate the holding place of the thousands in Federal custody.

You are running with a half truth and pretending it is the whole story, when the timeline of the often whined about law do not bear out.

Hell, Obama could have transferred the whole lot and still signed the appropriations bill by sitting on it for a few days which would have negated the offending sections which specifically pointed to folks held at Gitmo when the law went into effect. He chose not to go at it that way either.

If he intended to shut down the gulag by empting it, nothing in the law could have stopped him. He had a free had to start trials, relocate, or even flat out release these people just like Bush had until he signed that appropriations bill and pretending otherwise is lying.