From The Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's counterterrorism chief appeared to provide the first indication the administration may not make its January deadline for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay in remarks Thursday that aimed to outline a new path for combating terrorism.
The administration is folding measures to combat terrorists into its broader effort to engage other countries and improve social conditions overseas, said John Brennan, the president's senior counterterrorism adviser who also served as a senior intelligence official during the Bush administration.
In defense of the Obama administration's national-security policies, which have come under fire from the left and right, Mr. Brennan said the Obama administration is neither totally discarding nor fully embracing the policies of Mr. Bush.
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My Comment: The perception is that the Obama Administration always rushes into things without a proper plan for implementation .... the closing of Guantanamo being just one of them.
When the announcement was made on the closing of Guantanamo Bay by President Obama, this blog was blunt in editorializing the impossibility of meeting it. There are too many legal and (probably) national security issues that will need to be resolved first, and a time frame of 11 months was simply not practical.
No surprise .... word is now being leaked out by officials within the administration that the closing date for Gitmo may not be possible.