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    Where does effort to close detention facility stand?

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The Obama administration is apparently waving the white flag on Guantanamo today.

Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge tells us the latest and best indication.

That the effort to close gitmo is going nowhere.

After the president failed to meet his self imposed deadline to close the Guantanamo detention -- by January 2010.

This week an internal State Department announcement revealed the administration was not replacing Daniel -- -- point -- for transferring detainees to other country.

I think it's a realization that it was a mistake in the first place to try to do this the president signed his executive order on closing gitmo two days after his first inauguration.

White House cancel -- Craig can be heard on camera offering his -- reassurance.

As for separate.

American morning breakfast with respect to how we're gonna -- the detainees -- from.

We won't be throwing a process.

Whereby has been taking place.

After failing to meet this self imposed deadline Craig left the White House.

During media tours of the camps Fox News -- the president's executive order badly -- by the Cuban son.

Not far from where detainees -- their laundry watch television.

-- start -- before stations out of -- eighteen television stations.

Or enjoyed the newly built 744000.

Dollar soccer field no detainees were ever waterboarding here.

Democrats blame Republicans for legislative blocks.

The president can't do things unilaterally he has New York congress while Republicans responded the military is best equipped to handle the men they also point to the data.

Since 2009 the number of detainees has dropped from 242.

To a 166.

But at the same time those suspected or confirmed of returning to the battlefield has jumped to nearly 30%.

Human rights groups say they are deeply disappointed with the president's lack of leadership on Guantanamo.

Adding.

I think that with Daniel -- leaving his position with no one replacing him.

Really sends a message to the White House that the State Department can't implement the president's policy because the president doesn't -- one.

In a statement fox news -- -- of the administration has made clear that closing gitmo is in the interest of national security and efforts are continuing.

Separately observers at the military court in Guantanamo from an island in pretrial hearings -- fox there's a bizarre episode when the audio and video feeds at the proceedings were cut.

The interruption which even took the judge army colonel James -- by surprise came -- discussion of the CIA secret prisons.

The episode is raising the possibility that the CIA also has a role censoring what the public and media can hear.

An agency spokesman declined to comment for fox sports.

Continue to follow that has thank you.

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