President Bush's national security and legal advisers are expected to discuss the move at the White House on Friday and, for the first time, it appears a consensus is developing, senior administration officials said Thursday.
The advisers will consider a new proposal to shut the center and transfer detainees to one or more Defense Department facilities, including the maximum security military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, where they could face trial, said the officials.
"Could face trial"? Not "will face trial"?
Look, Bush, if all you're going to do is repeat all the same shit, just in different places, that's not really going to make anyone less pissed. Although I suppose if you break them up into several different facilities, rather than concentrating them all in one place, that would increase the time and resources necessary to check up on all of them, which might just let you get away with even more.
Assuming, of course, that the consensus you're developing is even for closing Guantanamo at all.
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