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Candidate who was validly openly pro choice. we had one that didnt want clintons impeachment. we had another that said he was against waterboarding. wanted to shut down guantanamo. i completely agree it will be difficult to take out a sitting president the first black president who is personally charming and liked personally by most americans they they dont like his policies with the entire media behind him. as for positions romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration. i dont think he...

Process gone? >>guest: the president is in a corner. when he ran for budget he spoke of shutting down guantanamo, to continue advanced inters techniques and, now, he left himself into a position where he cannot bring the guys home or puts them in guantanamo so just go ahead and skill them and in the long hall that has damaging effect for understanding what sort threats could be ahead. especially when we take into consideration pakistan and afghanistan and the taliban, and all of the reconstituti...

>> it may go away quietly the same way the civilian trials wept away quietly. there are over enhanced interrogations and they claim they will have civilian prosecutions for terrorists. we will shut down guantanamo and this is why leon panetta said screw it, lets kill this guy. the big dispute, the capture. it turns out he wasnt armed. he wasnt shooting back. but they thought if we bring him alive, eric holder will be trying him in new york city. bullet to the head. >> he could have ended up free...

Will this go away quietly? >> it may go away quietly the same way the civilian trials wept away quietly. there are over enhanced interrogations and they claim they will have civilian prosecutions for terrorists. we will shut down guantanamo and this is why leon panetta said screw it, lets kill this guy. the big dispute, the capture. it turns out he wasnt armed. he wasnt shooting back. but they thought if we bring him alive, eric holder will be trying him in new york city. bullet to the head. >> ...

Documents overall going back to, you know, keeping detainees in guantanamo bay and not shutting it down, does it shed light on why the obama administration is having so much trouble in coming through with obamas campaign promise to shut down guantanamo? >> it does. as, i mean, weve known previously that many of the folks still left there, the largest national group are from yemen. yemen, of course, is in chaos and has an active al qaeda branch. so a lot of people have been cleared to go home to ...

Were released, still considered high risk, andrea. >> as you know, mik, just releasing these detainees became almost an article of faith, certainly with condoleezza rice, colin powell before her, because it was such a black eye -- in terms of u.s. foreign policy. and now this administration has had to back down, is not going to be able to shut down guantanamo, wont be able to have civilian trials. does this kind of dump of previously secret files become more of a problem in the field for u.s. so...

Cuts for the rich who promised to close down guantanamo and, in fact is keeping it open and holding military tribunals and has expanded the war in afghanistan. now, for all those people who say room to the left, a lot of unhappy liberals, but they are not that unhappy. imagine, if you will, if hillary clinton announced tomorrow she was resigning from the cabinet, was going to run against the president because the president was simply too moderate, gone back on his promises and basically could ca...

Commissions act and adhere to the geneva conventions. >> he has not closed guantanamo, one of his first promises as president. in fact, just this week, the administration decided that khalid shaikh mohammed, mastermind of 9/11, will be tried in a military tribunal at guantanamo bay. was that promise a fundamental misreading of the practicalities and very difficult issues involved in shutting down that prison? >> no, and i think the president has tried to follow through and with great success wit...

Guantanamo, reject the military commissions act and adhere to the geneva conventions. >> he has not closed guantanamo, one of his first promises as president. in fact, just this week, the administration decided that khalid shaikh mohammed, mastermind of 9/11, will be tried in a military tribunal at guantanamo bay. was that promise a fundamental misreading of the practicalities and very difficult issues involved in shutting down that prison? >> no, and i think the president has tried to follow th...

Military commissions. it was clear -- here we are almost ten years from 9/11 with ksm, that he would either sort of be in limbo forever or we could finally get some justice for the american people and the victims. and so, that was a decision that the attorney general made and the president -- >> but he misread his ability to shut down guantanamo in a time of war against terrorism. >> well, i think hes tried very hard to do it, as you know. there is obviously steep resistance in congress. and the...