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July 21, 2009

Obama’s Guantanamo Task Force Misses Deadline
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President Obama’s call to close Guantanamo by next January is in doubt
after an administration task force failed to meet today’s deadline to
issue a report outlining a long-term detention plan for prisoners
captured after Sept. 11. The task force said it would need another six
months to complete its report. Newsweek reports the panel has agreed
that the Obama administration should continue to claim the right to hold
some Guantánamo prisoners indefinitely without charging them either in
criminal courts or in military commissions.



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