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" The invaluable Charlie Savage of The New York Times passed along the most infuriating story of the week. The announcement that no senior official in President Obama&amp;#039;s second term will succeed Mr. Fried in working primarily on diplomatic issues pertaining to repatriating or resettling detainees appeared to signal that the administration does not currently see the closing of the prison as a realistic priority, despite repeated statements that it still intends to do so. This is not the president&amp;#039;s having broken a campaign promise. This is not the result of the work of members of Congress who detected a political advantage in keeping people hiding under the bed rather than hauling what poor sods are left in our tropical gulag into a federal court somewhere in Iowa and thence, if found guilty, to a federal prison somewhere in Colorado. Those things are only part of a systemic failure of faith in the institutions that we feel safe in bragging about to the world, but not is allowing them to work the way they&amp;#039;re supposed to work here. The institutions failed because the politicians failed, and the politicians failed because we let them. The prison is still open because, fundamentally, and in the only way open to us, we as a nation expressed a desire that it stay open. Period. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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