Pentagon staff writing plan to empty prison camps

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/818501.html

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked his staff to draw up a plan for closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba should President-elect Barack Obama order a shutdown, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Gates, who will stay on at the Pentagon under Obama, wants to have a plan in hand in case the new president opts for a quick closure of the detention facility, spokesman Geoff Morrell said today at a press briefing.

He has asked his team for a proposal on how to shut it down, Morrell said.

During the presidential campaign, Obama said the facility for detaining terrorist suspects should be closed because of widespread international condemnation of it and complaints of prisoner abuse there.




US: Don’t Create an On-Shore Guantánamo
Coalition Calls on Obama to Transfer Terrorism Suspects to US Federal Courts
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/12/18/us-don-t-create-shore-guant-namo

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1. Does that incude bu$h & cheney?

"Coalition Calls on Obama to Transfer Terrorism Suspects to US Federal Courts"