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President could do the same sort of thing to empty guantanamo out. before this it did not seem like the president had the power to everyone ty guantanamo. does what just happened here mean he has more power than rewe previously understood? exact lay year ago president obama renewed his call to shut down guantanamo. he then apointed two new envoys, one at the state department, one at the pentagon, to start the work or restart the work of trying to close guantanamo. he literally reopened the office of closing guantanamo that had been shut down during his first term because they weren't getting a...

Obama renewed his call to shut down guantanamo. he then apointed two new envoys, one at the state department, one at the pentagon, to start the work or restart the work of trying to close guantanamo. he literally reopened the office of closing guantanamo that had been shut down during his first term because they weren't getting anywhere against congressional resistance. since the president renewed his commitment and renewed the effort to close guantanamo, there has been a small trickle of prisoners who have been sent home or more frequently to third countries. when congress sent president obam...

To quickly brand him as a full-fledged deserter doesn't do justice to due process, and, quite frankly, the president is wise to shut down guantanamo. we're winding down the operation in afghanistan. we're not -- going to keep that prison open indefinitely? some of those folks have to be going back to their home countries, and these guys were taliban leaders, not al qaeda leaders. >> that's an important distinction here. one guy was a governor under the taliban. the taliban ran a monstrous regime. >> of course. >> and tried to kill americans and succeeded but they were not al qaeda and were not...

Afforded. we need to find out what really happened here. quite frankly, the president has wanted to shut down guantanamo. we are winding down the operation in afghanistan. we're going to keep that prison open indefinitely? some of those folks have to be going back to their own countries. they were taliban leader, not al qaeda leaders. >> one was a governor of a profits -- the taliban ran a monstrous regime and tried to kill americans and succeeded killing lots of americans but they were not al qaeda and were not plotting explosions in manhattan or flying planes into buildings. there is a disti...

Foreign service, americans who might be traveling to dangerous parts of the world so i think we need to re-establish this principle and do it quickly. we need to be clear about what's going on. i listened to susan rice on another network, not yours, but another one and when pressed by someone, a reporter about why they released these individuals, she kind of said we want to shut down guantanamo anyway, and if this is how think going to shut down guantanamo, to release folks without going through the proper notice and making sure they don't go back in the battlefield against americans, we need ...