A new (or old?) halt to Gitmo-Yemen transfers
“A senior administration official said Thursday that Mr. Obama’s interagency team had already decided quietly several weeks ago that the security situation in Yemen was too volatile to transfer any more detainees beyond six who were sent home in December. The government concluded it had to release those six because it was about to lose habeas corpus hearings in court that would order them freed.
As for the rest, ‘we all agreed we couldn’t send people back because of the security situation,’ said the official, who like others requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
The administration will re-examine the question in late 2010, when an Illinois prison is ready to take remaining Guantnamo detainees, the official said.”
—New York Times, 1/1/2010
Hmmm. Is “quietly” a euphemism for “despite telling us more or less the opposite ten days ago”?