President Barack Obama's so-called allies in the Senate have decided to side with the Republicans and will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison until the administration comes up with a "satisfactory" plan for transferring the detainees held there, top Democrats said Tuesday. And in a further break with Obama, the Senate's top Democrat said he opposes transferring any Guantanamo prisoners to the United States for their trials or to serve their sentences. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, a hold over from the George W. Bush administration, has said 50 to 100 Guantanamo detainees may be transferred to U.S. facilities.

"I can't make it any more clear," Reid said. "We will never allow terrorists to be released in the United States." Reid did not elaborate. It is clear that not one of the Guantanamo prisoners have been found guilty of anything and also that they themselves have been terrorized, not the other way around. It was especially unclear why Reid felt these particular people would have the super human abilities which would threaten our country if they are brought here for proper legal trial. By law and historical president the Guantanamo military base has been considered to be "part of the USA proper" and thus subject to the full jurisdiction of US law until the Bush administration tried to twist everything around. Reid's poll numbers are sinking below 1/3rd of his electorate.

In recent polls 83 to 89 percent of Americans now believe the US Government of then president George W. Bush engineered the 9/11 events and that the US government continues not to tell the truth about 9/11. Many now believe the prisoners, held in Guantanamo without proper charges or trial, are not guilty of anything whatsoever. The torture methods used on them are identical to the torture methods the Soviets and Chinese had formerly used on political prisoners who were actually also completely innocent, the intent in using the torture was to solicit false confessions. Following this line of reasoning it becomes clear that the existence of Guantanamo is simply part of an effort to cover up the actual truth of 9/11. There is no way anyone can expect to get useful information from a detainee a week after arrest let alone many years as the "enemy" would simply have to change their plans. The only thing that isn't clear is which is a worse crime the orchestration of 9/11 or it's cover up which has included mass murder and torture to say nothing of subverting the US Constitution, the press and political system.

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Obama's plan to close Guantanamo is not dead only that the funding will have to wait until the administration devises an acceptable plan to handle the closure and transfer the detainees. Obama has promised to close the military prison by January. It is not at all clear why it would cost 80 million dollars to transfer 240 prisoners from Cuba to the continental United States.

The American people voted Democrats in and Republicans out, at least in part, to end the wars, stop torture and close Guantanamo. So far nothing close to this has happened other than nice empty words.

"The administration has not come up with a plan at this point," said Durbin, who is the whip, or No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. He added that Democrats are likely to address the issue on later legislation. "I think Guantanamo should be closed and we have to wait for the president's direction on what happens to the detainees."

Durbin said that he could support transferring detainees to U.S. prisons. "Our prisons are filled with dangerous people, including terrorists. And not a single one has escaped," he said.

With debate looming on Obama's spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate 240 human beings.

The administration has yet to develop a plan for what to do with the detainees, and Obama's promise to close the facility is facing strong GOP opposition, a party that technically was so severely rejected by voters that it is no longer national in scope. Is it true that President Obama has no plan or is it true that some of the Democratic leaders in Congress like Harry Reid just want to continue some of the worst policies of Bush-Cheney for long as they possibly can?