Huffington Magazine Issue 38 | Page 59

MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES HELD AT BAY peatedly prevented Obama from using federal money to transfer any detainees out of Guantanamo, shares some of the blame for the camp’s continued existence. Reid, who recently claimed it was “nobody’s fault” that Guantanamo had not been closed, is “part of the absolute failure,” Worthington said. Reid did not respond to a request for comment. At Guantanamo, some members of the military are quick to point out that the Pentagon didn’t seek out the duty of trying terrorists in the tribunal system, but that it was rather a burden imposed on the HUFFINGTON 03.03.13 THE VAGUE IDEA OF INDEFINITE DETENTION IS LOOKING MORE SPECIFICALLY LIKE LIFE IN PRISON. military by Congress. “They should really call them congressional commissions instead of military commissions,” one officer joked. But ultimately, Worthington said, Obama will have his name attached to the camp, just as Bush’s was. “He will go down in history fairly clearly as the man who failed to close this abomination,” Worthington said. “They will judge that President Oba ma failed to close it pretty much because he ran up Hooded demonstrators take part in a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, rallying for the closing of Guantanamo Bay detention center on Jan. 11, 2012.