Gitmo to Close in 2011?

We knew Obama's one year deadline was lie, we also know they are are desperate. But 2011? Will they still be blaming Bush when Obama is on the 2012 campaign trail? (Of course)

As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer its population of terrorism suspects until 2011 at the earliest — a far slower timeline for achieving one of President Obama’s signature national security policies than they had previously hinted.

While Mr. Obama has acknowledged that he would miss the Jan. 22 deadline for closing the prison that he set shortly after taking office, the administration appeared to take a major step forward last week when he directed subordinates to move “as expeditiously as possible” to acquire the Thomson Correctional Center, a nearly vacant maximum-security Illinois prison, and to retrofit it to receive Guantánamo detainees.

How desperate are they?

Frustrated by the difficulties in obtaining financing from Congress, administration officials had discussed invoking a little-known statute that would allow the president to declare a national emergency and then use military funds allocated for other construction projects to buy and retrofit the Illinois prison.

Of course the system can be made to work in Gitmo and the fact is that Holder and Obama, for all their hyperventilating have decided to allow the use of tribunals. That leaves closing Gitmo as purely for propaganda purposes, a decision that makes no sense when stacked up against the security and financial concerns of transferring terrorists to America.