Obama and Guantanamo

Another day, another Obama campaign promise broken.

Obama's administration is way behind schedule when it comes to shutting down Gitmo.

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday pushed back its own deadline for devising new anti-terrorism policies.

The decision had been expected, as presidentially appointed task forces have failed to meet a six-month schedule for making policy recommendations on how terror suspects should be interrogated, held in custody or handed over to other countries.

Senior administration officials said Monday that the report on detention will be delayed six months and the report on interrogation and transfer policy will be delayed two months.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue on the record.

As the administration quietly acknowledged the delay, a task force sent Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates a preliminary report summarizing their legal goals for handling terror suspects in the future.

"Where appropriate, prosecution of those responsible must occur as soon as possible, whether in federal court or before a military commission," according to the five-page memo on detention policy sent to the White House.

"Justice cannot be done, however, unless those who are accused of crimes are proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law that affords them a full and fair opportunity to contest the charges against them," the memo concludes.

The Obama administration has reached the halfway mark in its self-imposed goal to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by January 2010.

Six months after President Barack Obama signed the closure order, fewer than 20 of about 245 inmates have been transferred out of the U.S. military base in Cuba. Currently, there are 229 detainees at Guantanamo, and the administration, by its own clock, has six months more to remove them.

What's the problem?

Why isn't Obama making good on his own timeline?

Why have Obama's task forces failed so miserably in devising new antiterrorism policies?

I thought Obama had all the answers.

This isn't working out the way Obama promised it would.

Instead of ushering in change, Obama is hanging on to the policies of the Bush administration.

I don't have a problem with that, but the Lefties must be disappointed in Obama.

The lib media are so disappointed that they're basically ignoring the story altogether.

Obama is letting down a lot of people.

Failure after failure, a string of broken promises, and countless lies.