After months of internal debate over how to close the facility in Cuba, White House officials are increasingly worried that reaching quick agreement with Congress on a new detention system may be impossible.

Hey, if you can’t “reach an agreement” with a Congress stacked with the O’faithful, when can you?

heh heh

“Civil liberties groups have encouraged the administration, that if a prolonged detention system were to be sought, to do it through executive order,” the official said. Such an order could be rescinded and would not block later efforts to write legislation, but civil liberties groups generally oppose long-term detention, arguing that detainees should be prosecuted or released.

And this differs from the previous admin how? I guess, with the big Zero at the help, the civil liberty types are more patient with what they readily labeled “abuse” of human and judicial “rights” just a year ago.

UPDATE: BTW, the O’justice department made this policy late February, when I posted how they decided the Bagram detainees had no Constitutional rights and could be held as part of ongoing military action and not challenge their detention. I guess an EO puts a better seal of approval?