Obama: I cannot help it, it's not my fault:
Senate rebukes Obama, blocks Guantanamo shutdown In a rare, bipartisan defeat for President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the United States.
I did everything "we can"...
Obama in political box over closing Guantanamo
Concerns on that front were sufficient Wednesday that Obama met at the White House with ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero and representatives of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and other such organizations.
"I left the meeting feeling discouraged that President Obama plans to continue with many of the same policies of the Bush administration," Romero told The Associated Press.
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