I have been searching the web to see where this idea came from.
Does anyone know what started the push to close Gitmo in the first place? Was this just campaign rhetoric that got out of hand or was there a reason given for bringing terrorists into our jails and courts?
It’s been a Liberal demand for quite some time. The drumbeat started slowly maybe a year after 9/11 and picked up a lot of steam after 2006. It was wrapped up with a lot of anti-Bush rhetoric.
Strangely, after Obama got elected, the Left has been pretty quiet on Gitmo. Or....maybe not so strangely at that. The only one really pushing the issue now is Obama.