OBAMA THE HYPOCRITE!... Vowed to close Gitmo in '08 - now plans to send Americans there!

In January 2009, when Barack Obama took office, MSNBC reported on an AP story which suggested Obama was about to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, this according to two presidential transition team advisers at the time.

Obama promised during the presidential campaign to shut Guantanamo, endearing him to constitutional law experts, civil libertarians and other critics who called the Bush administration detentions a violation of international law.

Obama is on record confirming that he was, indeed, going to close the Cuban prison as he promised during this exchange reported by MSNBC:

"That's a challenge," Obama said on ABC's "This Week." "I think it's going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus as we speak to help design exactly what we need to do.
"But I don't want to be ambiguous about this," he said. "We are going to close Guantanamo and we are going to make sure that the procedures we set up are ones that abide by our constitution."

Funny how the tide turns when people have three years to forget the promises made by the hypocrite and fraud in the White House. Today we find out that, according to World Net Daily -

Buried within an 1,844-page bill currently sitting on Barack Obama's desk awaiting his signature is text that many critics are warning could give the president legal authority to send Americans to jail without charges, without trial, without end.

And what exactly would the purpose be for removing due process from Americans? They're terrorists, of course!

"We're talking about American citizens who can be taken from the United States and sent to a camp at Guantanamo Bay and held indefinitely," explains Rand Paul of Kentucky, one of 13 senators who voted against the bill. "There are laws on the books right now that characterize who might be a terrorist: someone missing fingers on their hands is a suspect, according to the Department of Justice. Someone who has guns, someone who has ammunition that is weatherproofed, someone who has more than seven days of food in their house can be considered a potential terrorist. If you are suspected because of these activities, do you want the government to have the ability to send you to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention?"

The senator was likely referring to documents released by the Department of Justice in Obama's first year in office listing everyone from returning veterans to pro-life activists to 2nd Amendment advocates as possible "domestic terrorists."

The Guardian reported this week -

Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.

"It's something so radical that it would have been considered crazy had it been pushed by the Bush administration," said Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch. "It establishes precisely the kind of system that the United States has consistently urged other countries not to adopt. At a time when the United States is urging Egypt, for example, to scrap its emergency law and military courts, this is not consistent."

But if you're a hypocrite and a fraud and possibly not even eligible to BE president this is entirely to be expected and should come as no surprise to ANYONE - Democrat OR Republican. Obama has promised total transparency yet has spent millions of his own dollars sealing up his personal records and fighting every attempt to find out why, for example, he has a Connecticut SSN, as well as attempts to see his records in Hawaii which lawyers have been given subpoena's to see and yet have been blocked and the law ignored by the President.

Now most recently Arizona Sheriff  Joe Arpaio has promised his findings on the eligibility issue which he also promises to be of interest to the skeptics and is now the target of the Obama regime. From WND -

Sheriff Joe Arpaio told WND today he intends to fight Justice Department allegations that his office violated federal civil rights laws in enforcing immigration laws in Maricopa County, Arizona.He further affirmed that his office will proceed with the Cold Case Posse investigation into the authenticity of Barack Obama's birth certificate and his eligibility to be president, which is scheduled to release preliminary findings in February.
In the Obama eligibility investigation, Arpaio's investigative team has amassed hundreds of pages of documentation and taken testimony from dozens of experts in preparation for a final phase of field investigation.

 In January 2009 Barack Obama said unambiguously "We are going to close Guantanamo". Now it seems he is ready to send American citizens there instead. Hypocrisy - thy name is Barack.