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I think in a way you're being unfair to President Obama. I believe his actual intention was to get the prisoners onto continental American soil and into a Feder

I think in a way you're being unfair to President Obama. I believe his actual intention was to get the prisoners onto continental American soil and into a Federal prison so that the Supreme Court would feel more inclined to require they be released or charged in the civilian system. He'd get the outcome he wanted (I think he really does believe Gitmo and unlimited detention are bad ideas) without having to take political responsibility for it himself. President Obama's stranger decisions can often be explained as an attempt to vote "present".

michaelt 13y ago
You think he said to himself "I'd like to shut guantanamo bay, but only if I can do it without getting credit or blame, if I have to take credit or blame I just won't do it" ? Seems to me he's in his final term - it's not like closing guantanamo bay would be the thing that stopped him getting re-elected. More likely, in my opinion, is that after being elected he received secret information (maybe proving the detainees are guilty, maybe proving they've been subject to torture which they'd go to the press about, maybe both) and he decided he didn't want them released.