The administration hopes to transfer a handful of the remaining terrorism suspects to foreign countries, the people familiar with the discussions said, and then persuade Congress to permit the transfer of the rest — including 9/11 suspects — to detention on the U.S. mainland. Biden hopes to close the facility by the end of his first term, the people familiar with the discussions said.Obama made a very unquiet attempt to close GITMO, and do you remember what happened with that?
Congress, however, resisted the [Obama plan to] transfer of detainees to the U.S. The House and the Senate rejected funding for the move and also blocked the transfers, with many Democrats voting against the Obama administration's plans.You can say that again, NBC News. Congress couldn't shut that down fast enough. Even Bernie Sanders voted to keep GITMO in Cuba.
Finally, in the last two paras, NBC gets down to the real story.
At a minimum, people familiar with administration discussions said, the Biden White House hopes to show some progress on closing Guantánamo by the 20th anniversary of 9/11 ... "People are starting to focus on it more," a person familiar with the discussions said.Oh, so he just wants to show progress on closing GITMO, not to be confused with making progress on closing GITMO. That makes sense.
Obama's problem was that he and his advisors evidently really believed there was some kind of consensus around closing GITMO, and he ran straight into a wall of opposition in Congress and with the public.
Kudos to Joe for having a better grasp on that political reality.
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TSB: The Biden administration has told federal agencies that they generally should not require their employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to work on-site in federal buildings or to disclose whether they are vaccinated.
It's great they decided to spare employees the hellacious consequences that Peter Daszak was bragging about creating not long ago. gwb
https://www.brighteon.com/c49de220-6bf0-4e46-bf10-4511cba95949 (today's Health Ranger situation update
TSB: Just a few days after Joe Biden told us how completely safe and effective the vaccines are it turns out countries like Isreal, UK and the US are finding they cause myocarditis in young healthy high school and college age men. This after almost all US college students will be required to show proof of vaccination to return to school this fall. Three members of the FDA advisory panel resigned this week...I think because they know a vote is coming soon on approving the vaccines and they don't want to deal with that vote. They know they aren't. Also, all Americans must leave Russia by next Tuesday? because of the threat of war with Russia = internment for the duration? gwb
My office tracks vaccination status, but I realize there are some legal restrictions involved.
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