WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, April 29, in an East Room news conference, President Barack Obama claimed, "We have rejected the false choice between our security and our ideals by closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay." That simply isn't true. What he did do was issue an executive order directing the facility be closed by January 2010 — more than seven months from now. Unfortunately, Mr. Obama — in his naive exuberance to fulfill a pledge that had earned stand ...

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