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Obama will get around to that promise any day now.

• rootusrootus 4y ago
  Seems he fell victim to that classic 'easy to make promises when you're running for office, difficult to follow through when you have access to state secrets you can't share with the public.'
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  • switch007 4y ago
    There are other plausible explanations. That old “if only you knew what I knew” excuse is a bit tired
  • int_19h 4y ago
    More likely, "difficult when there are important people complicit in all this, but whom you must retain as your allies to exercise political power". It's part of why the whole thing is rotten and can't be fixed from within the system by the system's own rules. Too many skeletons in too many closets.
  • ceejayoz 4y ago
    I think it's fairly unlikely to be explained by "there's secret evidence". We've pulled "whoops, wrong guy" a few times; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detainees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detaine... contains a number of "determined to be innocent" listings. The truth is probably closer to "there were a lot of people who sabotaged the attempt"; Republicans, Democrats in swing states, Pentagon officials. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/why-obama-has-failed-to-close-guantanamo https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/why-obama-has-...