Holder: Obama Regime Hell Bent on Closing GITMO
In keeping with Obama’s deep affection for America.
(POLITICO) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama administration is doing everything it can to shut down the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before the 2012 presidential elections.
Speaking Tuesday at the European Parliament, Holder said the administration is focused on closing the controversial facility “as quickly as possible, recognizing that we will face substantial pressure,” The Associated Press reports.
He added that the effort to shutter the detention facility would continue even after the 2012 elections if they can’t shut it down before then.
“We will be pressing for the closure of the facility between now and then — and after that election, we will try to close it as well,” Holder said. “Some people have made this a political issue without looking at, I think, the real benefits that would flow from the closure of the facility.”
The failure to keep his campaign promise of closing Guantanamo has been a headache for President Barack Obama throughout his presidency.
In December, Congress passed legislation that barred the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo to the U.S. — one method that Obama said would aide the process of closing the prison. In March, Obama said military trials could resume at the detention center, prompting some to accuse the White House of stepping further from the possibility of shutting down the facility.
Earlier this month, Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan said the administration will not send any new war-on-terror prisoners to Guantanamo, saying, “It’s this administration’s policy to close Guantanamo and, despite some congressional hurdles that have been put in our path, we’re going to continue to pursue that.”
Meanwhile, Holder also reiterated on Tuesday that the United States would maintain its “fundamental break” from some harsh interrogation techniques.
“We have indicated that certain techniques that were used previously are in fact torture, and will not be engaged in again by the United States,” he said.
Posted by WM on Tuesday, September 20, 2011, at 11:33 am | 
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No it’s not! Gitmo will be one of the gulag locations to send dissenters.
Holder, you worthless empty suit POS, what about KSM ?????..crickets chirping…
He’s F’d us these 4 years and will probably F us again for another 4, his minions should at least ask for a kiss before.
Eric Holder is a puppet of his master, Obama.
It must feel terrible to know you are only a figurehead and your boss makes all the decisions. He knows Gitmo will NOT be closed by Jan 2013 so he’s just posing for the press……worthless waste of air and food.
Is he taking fast & furious action?
Holder should be arrested, prosecuted and hung up by his neck from the nearest tree.
As I remember, promise # 1, Jan 20, 2009, was to close GITMO.
Worked out pretty good so far.
This article did not address the benefits of closing Guantanamo that Holder eluded to, apparently not important enough to address.
This is just pure almost passive pandering by Obama’s proxy speaker Holder to the European Parliament.
My opinion, it ain’t going to happen and there is no real benefits to closing it with the exceptions of appeasing the Obama Regimes leftard supporters and the Middle East Muslim detractors.
odumbo knows he has no chance of re-election. That`s why he`s pissing off America – one day at a time before he leaves office..
They might as well turn it into a training camp for the jihadis – we keep letting these jihadis loose to try and kill our people again anyway. holder and obama might as well train ‘em while we got ‘em – the two of them seem so hell bent on destroying us….couple of jerks
Dick!
Nice photo array.
President Obama is the Commander in Chief. Doing “everything he can” to close it would be to make a telephone call and order it closed.
If he is somehow claiming that he doesn’t have the authority, then he is a liar. Plain and simple.
These people think everyone is stupid except for themselves.
Stand up, admit you were ignorant when you claimed that Guantanamo needed to be shut down, and move forward.
Definition of toture: obama.
Dont close GITMO close the UNITED NATIONS instead
The photos clearly show the littleness of the man holding office. He thinks it’s cute and clever to flip someone off. I’m so betting he never tried that on the mean streets of Chicago? If he did, it wasn’t to ‘his people’ or supporters.
Hmmm GITMO….. GIT-MO,, nope never heard of it.
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′ (WTF)
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-
I wonder what else Obama does with that middle finger? It’s odd that he doesn’t use his forefinger like everybody else..
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“Holder also reiterated on Tuesday that the United States would maintain its “fundamental break” from some harsh interrogation techniques.”
“We have indicated that certain techniques that were used previously are in fact torture, and will not be engaged in again by the United States,” he said.”
Oh no, we won’t torture them anymore….. Obama’s humane solution seems to be blowing them into pieces 1 or 2 at a time, at $75,000 a clip.
Glad these two pieces of shit love each other because they will become life roomates when the American people are through with them.
I would like to lob that middle finger off.
“I’ll get right on top of that Rose!”
When I see a picture of those two elitist racists, I have to put some serious thought into which one I’d rather hit with a hammer. As much as I seriously loathe and detest Obozo….Holder runs co-No. 1 in that feeling as well. I hate that prick.
“We have indicated that certain techniques that were used previously are in fact torture….”
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No! You have simply labeled them torture.
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Because neither one of them want to end up there after the Nov 2012 elections.
Isn’t the matter of torture an irrelevant point anyway? The understanding we have with other nations…..the standardization of our behavior to other nations is a contractual obligation. It does not apply to rogue organizations, or to criminal cartels who operate independent of state authority. It doesn’t even apply to non-signators.
The Geneva Convention is a CONTRACT, and every contract must be binding on both parties in order to have any standing.
From the PBS (Liberal) web site:
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/exclusive-to-al-jazeera/the-geneva-conventions/the-geneva-conventions-to-whom-do-the-conventions-apply/615/
“The Geneva Conventions are multilateral, international treaties. This means that they bind only those nation-states that have signed, ratified, and deposited their ratification with the United Nations. When a country such as the United States or Iraq signs and ratifies the Geneva Conventions, it agrees that all of those individuals under its control — military and civilian leaders, as well as soldiers in the field, in the air, and on the sea — are bound by the Conventions’ mandates.
Individuals not operating under the control of a government signatory to the Conventions such as independent news outlets — regardless of their medium — are not bound by the Geneva Conventions. Journalists are not state actors, are not acting under the control of a combatant military power, and, therefore, are not bound by the laws of war. As non-combatants who are not acting as government agents, journalists are not bound — and, in fact, are protected by — the Geneva Conventions.”
Notice, he didn’t say it will close.
I will do my utmost to live forever. Check back later for results.
Microcephalic and Ferret Face.
ThomNJ says:
They might as well turn it into a training camp for the jihadis –
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Well, that’s exactly what it is. Isn’t it?!
Anyway, I support closing Gitmo. Shoot all the bastards and close that place immediately. When you catch some more vermin, torture them for any info they might posses, then shoot them as well.
Next!
Oh yeah i remember GITMO,that place you swore to close yrs ago because it was an inhuman,cruel prison full of torture.
Guess you forgot about the inhumane part till it was time to forage for votes.All that golfing can be distracting.
whthfk,is Attack Watch. says:
September 20, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Because neither one of them want to end up there after the Nov 2012 elections.
BINGO!!!!!!
i have started fantasizing my own torture for these commies. (including that bitch “all that for a flag” the first lunchlady)
24/7 playing of national anthem, TV playing veterans tributes and documentaries…
they’re heads will essplode!
If Holder told me the sun was shining, I’d go outside and check.
Dick Dasadrly meets with th Hooded Claw
Hopefully 2 yrs. from now these crooks will be a distant memory…..
agree Rob.
“Hey Hussein- pull my finger! No, really, pull it!”
That’s not all that he is “Hell Bent” on doing….