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Obama Delays Report on Closing Guantanamo

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Jul 20, 2009 at 07:31:40 PM EST
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President Obama asked his task force to provide a roadmap to closing Guantanamo by today. They didn't. The report has been delayed until the fall . Michael Isikoff reports:

The task force, set up on Obama's second day in office, was charged with preparing a report to the president by Tuesday, July 21, outlining a long-term detention plan for detainees captured in counterterrorism operations after Sept. 11. But continued debate within the task force over the legal basis for holding detainees who are not charged with any crimes—and where to house them once they are moved from Guantánamo—has forced the task force to postpone its report by a "few months," a senior administration official told NEWSWEEK.

The ACLU's response is here. Also being delayed: the task force report on interrogations of "high value detainees."

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    Another promise on the way to breaking (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Carolyn in Baltimore on Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 09:20:38 AM EST
    It's always interesting to me what gets responded to here on TL.
    So reports on closing Gitmo and on torture of detainees are being delayed. Justice delayed is ___.
    Obama made some very specific promises around these issues and look  - we can't even get reports done, much less the plan and the actual closing of Gitmo.

    I thought he could multitask!

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