Obama’s GITMO fall guy, Greg Craig, resigns

  Today it was announced that Greg Craig is stepping down from the Obama administration.

  One of the first acts Barack Obama did as president was to sign the executive order to close GITMO by the end of this year. This was a feel good move and a bone that Obama threw to the far left in an effort to appease them. There was never any chance that GITMO was going to be closed by the end of the year. Barack Obama signed this executive order without even bothering to consider what he was going to do with the terrorists that are being held there.

  But now that Barack Obama can no longer hide the fact that he has to break his GITMO pledge he has to save face– there has to be a fall guy to provide cover for Obama, after all he is never going to admit his mistake, and Greg Craig appears to be the guy that has to fall on the sword for Obama.

  So while Craig supposedly fell out of favor in the administration for his mishandling of the GITMO closing, it was the president’s rash and shortsighted decision to close GITMO without all of the facts that led to this failure. He will never admit this even though many of us knew that his proposal was too aggressive. He can now turn to his far left base and claim that he tried his best to close GITMO but Greg Craig blew it. He will wash his hands of any blame.

  I am sure that before all is said and done Barack Obama will reward Greg Craig for taking the hit on this issue.