NBC: 'Hopes' of Gitmo Terror Detainees Were 'Crushed' By Obama's Failure to Close Prison

MRC ^ | Friday, March 22, 2013 | Kyle Drennen

[SunkenCiv]

In a report for Thursday's NBC Today, investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff reported on plans for a $150 million renovation of the Guantanamo Bay prison still housing 166 terror detainees and sympathetically described how "despite improvements in recent years" of the facility, "the detainees' hopes of getting released were crushed when President Obama stopped talking about closing it."

Isikoff noted that some of the detainees were "engaged in a hunger strike...as an attempt to regain attention." A sound bite played of new the commanding general of the prison expressing his frustration with President Obama: "Nothing in the inauguration speech about closing it. Nothing in the State of the Union. You know, he's not re-staffing the office that was, you know, focused on closing or transferring."

Isikoff forwarded the Obama administration defense: "White House officials say they're still committed to closing Gitmo as the President once promised....But they say their hands are tied by Congress..."

[SunkenCiv]

Waaaah.

[dead]

I love how the leftwing bed wetters all cried about how closing Gitmo was the most important thing in the world during the Bush Administration. It's very existence made us worse than the Nazis in the eyes of the world.

Actual DU screen capture:

Then Obama decided not to close it and the pukey little hypocrits timidly agreed not to care about it anymore.

[bigheadfred]

The things you read when you’re fresh out of peanut butter.

[shove_it]

Hunger strike my ass. These devils are playing Br’er Rabbit. They never had it so good.

[bigheadfred]

$150 million renovation of the Guantanamo Bay prison still housing 166 terror detainees

How about just have the guy from Terminix do an hour there and we have no terror detainees at a cost of $150?

[doc1019]

Old fashion firing squad would save even more money.

[MtnClimber]

Poor little terrorists did not get help from our Marxist savior. Marxism has mass murders so you terrorists would be only side notes to the rest of us who Zero seems to want dead. Good, evil, the progressives have it backward.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So they had their villas and small businesses all picked out in the Caribbean?

[bigheadfred]

Yeah. Congress sucks. oh wait...what thread is this???

[sickoflibs]

American Muslims vote for Obama 100%

These prisoners are the walking dead.

[Robert357]

Good old Hope & Change disappoints another constituency block.

[no-to-illegals]

LOL fred ... now that's funny.

[no-to-illegals]

I love the pictures. Kind of makes one think they are on a spaceship.

[stylin19a]

they just built\renovated soccer fields for 750k

[no-to-illegals]

fred ... I'm blaming this on you ... LOL

[no-to-illegals]

My apology SunkenCiv and bigheadfred. Love you’all!

[clintonh8r]

CLOSE GITMO NOW!!!

(With the jihadis still inside)

[TigersEye]

Do they have a Hallmark card for that?

[rfp1234]

Isikoff is the same fool who falsely reported that Gitmo guards had 'flushed a Koran down a toilet'. That sparked a bunch of deadly riots in Pakistan and elsewhere, a few years ago.

He should go flush himself.