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Obama goes back on promise (and signed order) to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison

Infowars reports, citing Jake Tapper of ABC News:

"The Obama administration reaffirmed its belief this week that it has the power to indefinitely detain prisoners at Guantanamo and said it would not reach out and ask Congress to craft legislation to give them the authority. Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said that when Congress on Sept. 18, 2001 gave President George W. BushPresident George W. Bush the authorization to use force against those behind the 9/11 attacks, lawmakers gave...Obama the power to indefinitely detain prisoners captured in that effort."

This action is a clear flip-flop on Obama's signing of an order early this year to shut down the prison and his vote in 2006 to preserve habeas corpus rights for detainees.

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