As President Barack Obama delivered his speech from the Roosevelt Room in the White House on closing Guantanamo, his plan to close the terrorist detention facility was delivered to lawmakers. The 9-page plan—read together with the administration’s legal analysis of the immigration consequences if some of the remaining 91 Guantanamo detainees were brought to the United States—was predictably vague on crucial details and landed with a dull thud on Capitol Hill, and for good reason.
The administration calls the document sent to the hill a plan, but it is not so much a plan as it is a sketch of what they have done to date. The “plan” includes four parts:
[Snip]Left unaddressed are the most important details of any serious closure plan, including but not limited to the location in the United States where the administration wants to send some detainees, a specific cost analysis for that stateside facility, and specific plans for what the administration plans to do for the disposition of future detainees.
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