Despite threats, Obama can’t close Guantanamo through executive action!

[Vigilante]

Bet he'll TRY, he's got a YEAR LEFT to FUCK OVER THE CONSTITUTION, and with the help of his NEW lap dog, Speaker "LYIN'" RYAN...he might get away with it!

The Washington Times ^ | December 20, 2015 | Ben Wolfgang
Leaders in Congress and the U.S. attorney general say President Obama simply doesn't have legal authority to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility through executive action, but that fact didn't stop a supremely confident president last week from threatening to act on his own if lawmakers won't cooperate. At a year-end press conference on Friday -- the same day Mr. Obama signed a massive spending bill that seems to prohibit him from closing Guantanamo on his own -- the president said he will explore the limits of his executive power if the House and Senate don't pass legislation to shutter...

 

[tyroneweaver]

He can't close it, but what if he ships everyone off.

 

[Vigilante]

He can't close it, but what if he ships everyone off.

Would make a NICE vacation spot...I can see a TRUMP INTERNATIONAL built over the soccer field which the terrorist use all day long!

 

[Stratford57]

Some room should be saved in Guantanamo for future Obama's Library.

 

[Vigilante]

Some room should be saved in Guantanamo for future Obama's Library.

Too late, already built in downtown Chicago....

 

[S.J.]

Some room should be saved in Guantanamo for future Obama's Library.

Or for Obama.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

That most on the right want the illegal detentions to continue comes as no surprise.

Indeed, Guantanamo is just another Bush mess the president must try to clean up.

 

[Stratford57]

That most on the right want the illegal detentions to continue comes as no surprise.

Indeed, Guantanamo is just another Bush mess the president must try to clean up.

Just wondering, how much mess your President has already cleaned up? I am only aware about the mess he has brought to USA and to the big part of the whole world.

 

[BULLDOG]

Whine all you want, but the gears are already turning to close it down, and I'll tell you how it's going to happen so you won't be surprised when it does. We have no legal grounds to hold a large part of those prisoners. Many have been there for a decade or more with no proof they did anything other than being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Most of those people will be moved to other countries. It will cost way too much to maintain the facility for the few people left, and the tea people will never be able to justify such a high cost for so few prisoners. Problem solved, and you can't do a thing to stop it.