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Tweeted this. i feel a movement coming. >> finally, something that we dont cover enough around here. probably one of the biggest broken promises of the obama presidency. time after time candidate obama vowed to close guantanamo prison. the detention of military combatants. >> when we have got a guantanamo that is open and we suspend habeas corpus, those kinds of thing erode our moral claims. we will lead by shutting down guantanamo and restoring habeas corpus in this country so that we offer an ...

Of defense hagel to certify the transfer of detainees which the latest ndaa does allow for. everyone can decide for themselves whether they think thats the boston ideal way to move forward but thats something congress did allow obama to have as a way around some of the restrictions. and then the other thing is to re-establish a task force on how to shut guantanamo down. what happened instead the office and state department thats responsible for attempting to shut down guantanamo that office itse...

Against the united states. i think thats really, that should be a primary consideration. when you have over 50% of the prisoners at guantanamo who have been cleared for release by the u.s. governments own standards, every security national agency have signed off. im not conceding everybody is properly detained. you tart there and work your way through. its manageable and feasible to close down guantanamo. thats where we expect president obama to put downed policy over politics and do what our pr...

Terrorist attack to happen. thats unthinkable for him. >> well, look, youre right. there is always kind of a disjuncture between campaigning and governing. thats true in the area of national security where a president is all of a sudden, assumes these responsibilities. two points. one thing is that while obama did talk about restoring constitutional values to the war on terror, shutting down guantanamo, doing all these other high minded thing, one thing he did that do is talk about the drone pro...

In virginia. all three, marines. plus, amanda knox. her freedom apparently could be in jeopardy. italys court about to decide if her murder conviction should be reinstated. and president obama, you remember when he promised to shut down guantanamo? so why is the administration considering spending another $50 million to build a new prison there? its not what you think. its a phoenix with 4 wheels. its a hawk with night vision goggles. its marching to the beat of a different drum. and where beaut...

Policies under the previous president, that statute of limitations means that its not enough to keep him from the incredibly powerful job of cia director in the presidents second term. because president obama signed that executive order against torture, and because he did not reopen the secret cia prisons, and because he has been trying to shut down guantanamo, even though he has not been able to, because even if the idea of american troops flying covertly into a supposed allied country and kill...

I think the two sides of his brain are really -- his foreign policy brain are really being exercised in these two nominations today, because you have chuck hagel, which is the barack obama who as a state senator had established his bona fides as someone against the iraq war, and also against expansion i military engagement overseas. and that is chuck hagel. and the other side of that he has also been slower to fight the good fight some would say from his base perspective of shutting down guantan...

Exercised in these two nominations today, because you have chuck hagel, which is the barack obama who as a state senator had established his bona fides as someone against the iraq war, and also against expansion i military engagement overseas. and that is chuck hagel. and the other side of that he has also been slower to fight the good fight some would say from his base perspective of shutting down guantanamo. he has made compromises. and he has also signed some of the defense authorization and ...

As the "new normal." >> joining us is john suskind. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> is there a window of political opportunity right now in washington after this election to change the footing we decided on after 9/11? some of the stuff the president carried over? >> indisputingablindisputably. thats what people are hopeful abo about. is this going to be a predicate? an opportunity for the president now that he doesnt have to stand for reelection? to do some things people hoped he w...

Term. certainly shut down guantanamo. there are clear issues here of the presidency hopefully snapping back into the shape it had prior to 9/11. thats the hope of lots of constitutional scholars. it has not done that up to now. most of the powers granted or obtained by the bush administration have conveyed, if you will, to the obama administration. so the question is this the beginning of the president creating a new normal, as johnson says, in which we are not in a state of war and the presiden...