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By David Edwards and Muriel Kane~Raw Story
President Bush “lied” when he promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
That was the conclusion of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, based on a New York Times report that Bush “never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials.”
Defense Secretary Gates has publicly conceded that Guanatanamo “is an issue that will have to be addressed early on by a new administration.”
“Mr. Bush does not even have the courage to clean his own diaper,” Olbermann concluded.
In an exchange during a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Dana Perino was asked about Bush’s decision not to close the camp and replied, “I don’t see anything that’s new in that story. What the President has said is that he wants to be able to get into a position where we could close Guantanamo eventually. But it’s very complex, it’s complicated, it is difficult.”
Pernio cited unresolved issues involving military commissions, returning some detainees to their home countries or elsewhere, ongoing habeas corpus litigation regarding a federal judge’s recent order that 17 Chinese Muslims who are no longer considered enemy combatants must be freed within the United States, and the administration’s attempt to get Congress to pass legislation overturning a Supreme Court ruling that detainees have the right to challenge their detention in US courts.
