Why Suddenly Is Gitmo Not Closable This Year?

Usama Obama has searched high and low since January for a state with a facility and a citizen base receptive to the idea of having terrorists incarcerated down the road from their children's schools. Until recently Obama was confident closing Gitmo this year was doable. Now, within the past couple of weeks he's backed off. Why? Hardin, Montana, his last hope, can't deliver that's why.

In the past week or so some stories started trickling out of Hardin, Montana about the local police department being disbanded and being replaced by an unknown police force staffed with foreign nationals. The Blogs picked up these early stories as citizen internment camp related, or as remote Hardin, Montana being the site for some sort of newly discovered "trial internment camp /training center".

I believe the speculation was far off as to what was actually going on there. Michelle Malkin ran this piece about the "foreign police force" contract falling apart because the contract service provider, was discovered to have a lengthy rap sheet, and is a convicted felon who specializes in fraud. Hardin's city reps walked away from the deal partly based on learning that information.

Perhaps Rohm Emanuel unearthed this skally-wag desperate to fulfill an Obama left wing mandate to get Gitmo closed so they could try the 911'ers under Constitutional protection, even though it meant pulling a fast one on the rest of the people of Montana. It has never been cleared up whether Montana's governor knew about what was afoot in Hardin. It appears the good people from Montana decided to find out pronto what was going behind their backs,and ultimately shot down Obama's scheme, faster than the mystery police wheeled their slick SUVs into town a few weeks earlier.

As far as proof, I have none, it's kind of like military intelligence work, you look at the pieces of information, and try to determine how it might fit together.


As a side note, anybody in law enforcement looking for a job, there are some openings in Hardin, Montana. (The Big Sky Country. Not a bad place at all if you like tall mountains, snow,30 below nights and down to earth people; I once lived in Kalispell :)

Steve
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From Michelle Malkin
10/06/09

Officials in this remote Montana town have placed plans for a California company to take over a never-used, $27 million jail on hold.

The Hardin economic development authority’s decision to step back from an agreement with the newly minted American Police Force, of Santa Ana, Calif., came as town leaders on Monday announced the resignation of both the attorney and the economic development official who helped craft the jail deal for the city.

The decision also follows revelations that Mike Hilton, the lead figure of the American Police Force, has a history of fraud that includes several years in jail and three civil judgments against him for more than $1.1 million.

“We won’t move forward. I don’t think any of us want to be on the chopping block,” said Gary Arneson, president of Hardin’s Two Rivers Authority, which owns the jail…

…On Friday, a California judge ordered Hilton to appear in court Oct. 27 over an outstanding judgment in a fraud lawsuit. In that case, Hilton lured investors to sink money into an assisted living complex in Southern California that was never built. An attorney for the plaintiffs, Cris Armenta, said the $340,000 judgment awarded in 2000 has grown to about $700,000 with interest factored in. Armenta said she planned go after any and all of Hilton’s assets, including his wages, property and three Mercedes SUVs that Hilton had once offered to donate to Hardin.