Protesters in front of the White House unfurled a banner demanding that the prison camps at Guantanamo be closed during a commemoration Jan. 11 of the 9th anniversary of the detention center's founding. | Olivier Douliery / Abaca Press / MCTHow Congress Helped Thwart Obama's Plan To Close Guantanamo -- McClatchy News
Two years after the newly minted Obama administration moved to undo what had become one of the most controversial legacies of the George W. Bush presidency by ordering the closure of the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a trove of State Department documents made public by the website WikiLeaks is providing new information about why that effort failed.
Key among the factors, the cables suggest: Congress' refusal to allow any of the captives to be brought to the United States.
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My Comment: For the first two years of President Obama's Presidency .... he had super Democratic majorities in both the Senate and Congress to pass anything that he wanted. The failure of closing Guantanamo does not rest with Congress, Republicans .... or anyone else. In fact .... it rests in the hands of President Obama himself and his failure to prioritize in his administration the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison after he had signed his executive order to close the facilities when he first assumed the Oval Office.