{"id":322,"date":"2005-06-10T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T13:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/06\/10\/cuba-libre\/"},"modified":"2005-06-10T09:55:44","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T13:55:44","slug":"cuba-libre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/06\/10\/cuba-libre\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Libre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5240'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p> <em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/cunna.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" align=\"left\">Seems like a pretty significant difference of opinion in the top<br \/>\n        levels of the current administration if the President and the Secretary<br \/>\n        of Defense can&#8217;t even get their cover story straight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PRESIDENT BUSH raised<br \/>\n          the possibility for the first time of closing down the US<br \/>\n          detention<br \/>\n          facility<br \/>\n          at Guantanamo<br \/>\n          Bay.<\/p>\n<p>        Mr Bush, responding to heightened criticism, said that his Administration<br \/>\n        was exploring all alternatives to imprisoning terrorist suspects at the<br \/>\n        naval base in Cuba, which currently holds 520 prisoners<\/p>\n<p><em>meanwhile&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know of no one in the U.S. government, in the executive branch,<br \/>\n        that is considering closing Guantanamo,&quot; Rumsfeld told reporters,<br \/>\n        within hours of Bush&#8217;s comments being broadcast in the Fox News interview.<\/p>\n<p><em>However, on closer examination, it seems strangely reassuring that the<br \/>\n        serious and sober SecDef doesn&#8217;t consider the goofy G-man as being &quot;anyone<br \/>\n        in the US Government&quot;. Even thinking that Dubya is really in control<br \/>\n        of the apparatus of power is like believeing, in one of those impossible, hideous moments of unreal clarity, that the kid in the infant seat with the toy steering wheel is<br \/>\n        really driving the car.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=833892\">ABC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like a pretty significant difference of opinion in the top levels of the current administration if the President and the Secretary of Defense can&#8217;t even get their cover story straight. PRESIDENT BUSH raised the possibility for the first time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/06\/10\/cuba-libre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}