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Closing Gitmo: Timing is Everything

ABCNews -- Everyone, from President Bush to both contenders for his job, seems to agree that the prison camp at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be shuttered. The real question now is timing.
Since the Supreme Court issued its sweeping ruling (http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/SCOTUS/story?id=5048935&page=1#http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/SCOTUS/story?id=5048935&page=1) last month granting those detainees access to U.S. courts, on U.S. soil, the White House has been wrestling with the nuts and bolts of operations at Guantanamo -- and whether to close the facilities (http://blogs.abcnews.com/legalities/2008/07/bush-to-close-g.html#http://blogs.abcnews.com/legalities/2008/07/bush-to-close-g.html).
Sources confirmed to ABC News that the...
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8.29.08 - Updated 12:23am ET
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