Maybe Closing Gitmo is not in the Cards

James Carafano / February 03, 2010

Politico reported yesterday that “The second-ranking House Democrat signaled Tuesday that the White House is reconsidering a plan to move Guantanamo detainees to a prison in northwest Illinois … Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he agrees that the Obama administration should reassess the plan to move terrorist suspects from the Cuba military base to Thomson Correctional Facility in the state’s northwest corner.”

If Hoyer is sincere and his assessment of the White House is accurate … well, that it is almost too much to hope for. Could the president actually be thinking about implementing a rational policy for detention, trials, and interrogation, rejecting wrongheaded initiatives that were formulated mostly to make happy talk to the left wing? (more…)