As part of his like, push to close guantonimo, he like this is like a back channel negotiation that charle savage of the new york times ealed in his excellent book, power wars. Rum emmanuel and lindsay graham are having back channel negotiations in which they work out a bargain that obama, to his credit, personally rejects. But the bargain is the republicans will go along with closing guantonimo in exchange for writing some kind of codification in the law that allows for indefinite military detention. So if, ok, so, like, if you have that, what's the point of closed guantonimo?
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