Here is another test for Obama: Gitmo.
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White House officials last week tried to downplay their decision to postpone by six months a key report on what to do with Guantánamo detainees when the facility is shut down.
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Downplay their decision. How did they do that?
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The White House announced last week's report delay in a late-afternoon press briefing that was embargoed until 9 p.m.—late enough to keep the disclosure off the network news and the cable talk shows with the highest ratings.
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Manipulate the news, use the news cycle!
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Democrats are growing skeptical. "I don't think they know what to do," complains Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia, who backs shutting Gitmo. [...] But the State Department has found few countries willing to take them, and Defense Intelligence Agency officials have raised concerns about some of those who have been cleared, according to another administration official.
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They stopped calling them "enemy combatants," what is next?
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Well, it was only a matter of time. The Obama administration has decided to abandon the term “enemy combatants” to describe the jihadi suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Makes sense. After all, Attorney General Eric Holder’s former law firm has been calling the Gitmo detainees by a different name for a while now: "Clients."
Let the re-branding begin. Bucktown Dusty suggests the DOJ will start calling them “Undocumented Protagonists”; suicide bombers will be “Next Life Enablers.”
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HAHAHAhahaha!!!!
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Obama to re-brand “enemy combatants”