Senate rebukes Obama, blocks Guantanamo shutdown
This post was added by breakingjist on May 20, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare, bipartisan defeat for President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the United States….
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