CNN.com
A White House meeting planned for Friday about the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been canceled after The Associated Press reported the Bush administration was “nearing a decision” to close the center.
National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said there would be no meeting Friday, but he would not comment on the reasons for the cancellation
Earlier Thursday, AP reported that officials were close to a decision to shut down the facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and that the administration had scheduled a meeting to discuss a proposal to transfer the detainees to other military prisons.
Officials from the White House, the Pentagon and the Justice and State departments denied the AP report.
“The administration is not ‘nearing a decision’ on changing our long-held policy to shut down Gitmo in a responsible way,” said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. “There is no meeting tomorrow.”
Echoes of Richard Nixon’s obsession with impeachment discussion as recorded in his White House diaries and brought to light by Daniel Ellsberg after Nixon’s resignation.
It would seem that Bush, at this late date, is finally realizing that he has a lot of ground to cover to get on the good side of the law.
I say it is far too late. What say you?