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Obama on Guantamo

One Issue , Two Different Treatments

The issue involving the shutdown of the detention and interrogation facility at Gauntanamo Bay in Cuba as a frequent subject matter on Barack Obama 's campaign trail has blown up now that he has been elected and the media as well as the public has been keeping close watch on what the president-elect intends to do to fulfil his promise

On November 12 , Mother Jones came up with a news feature

on the issue in its website ( HYPERLINK "http /www .motherjones .com /washington_dispatch /2008 /11 /barack-obama-gua ntanamo-bay-pans .html www .motherjones .com /washington_dispatch /2008 /11 /barack-obama-guantanamo- bay-pans .html . Writing with the headline , Grappling With Gitmo reporter Bruce Falconer asks in its blurb , What matters is what he does next

The news begins with an brief exposition on Obama 's campaign promise then immediately moves on to the concern on how the president-elect and his team plan to go about it while laying out issues that could get in the way

.campaign rhetoric is giving way to hard political and legal realities . Closing Guantanamo raises a host of questions , such as whether to move detainees to the United States or repatriate them to their countries of origin how to proceed with pending criminal prosecutions and whether prosecutors will be able to use evidence acquired through torture (Falconer

In just the same opening paragraph , Falconer was able to give a gist of what other...