Date For Closing Gitmo Gets Pushed Further Back

[Zygar]

Well, he sure as hell doesn't deserve a second term.

He's followed the Bush/Cheney objectives with great care.

Yeah, here's hoping that Palin wins...

 

[Darth Rotor]

Why not build a concentration camp in Florida?

Union labor too expensive?

 

[willhaven]

It's not easy putting toothpaste back into the tube.

 

[Ziggurat]

On today's episode of "Spot the Rubes"...

 

[WildCat]

The demands are entirely reasonable. The problem is that they are politicaly suicidal.

At this point it has been established that there is no legal advantage to holding people at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. There is also a slight lack of a practical advantage as it should be posible to run a secure facility at a lower cost on the US mainland.

Thus it ends up purely as a political issue.

Why would the cost be lower inside the US?

Gitmo is already built. The cost to convert Thompson to house Gitmo detainees was $350 million, and that's before a single prisoner could be transferred.