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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (39406)2/22/2013 10:07:29 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 85487
 
The responsibility lies not so much with the White House but with Congress, which has thwarted President Barack Obama’s plans to close the detention center, which the Bush administration opened on Jan. 11, 2002, with 20 captives.

Congress has used its spending oversight authority both to forbid the White House from financing trials of Guantánamo captives on U.S. soil and to block the acquisition of a state prison in Illinois to hold captives currently held in Cuba who would not be put on trial — a sort of Guantánamo North.



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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (39406)2/22/2013 2:12:58 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 85487
 
You need to check your facts.

Bush issued many more executive orders than Obama!

<<Right, the President who has issued more Executive Orders than any previous president, the Commander in Chief of the military, was powerless to act.


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