envoy post in early two thousand and nine dedicated exclusively to closing down gitmo this guy daniel fried was selected to the position and he spent the next year traveling around the world finding willing partners to accept current detainees at gitmo who would be released once the prison closes so early on when it came to closing gitmo the ball was moving forward. but then the president crashed head first into the post nine eleven political reality in america and in particular in congress right off the bat in may of two thousand and nine the senate blocked eighty million dollars requested by the president to close gitmo it was a ninety to six vote with nearly all the democrats and every single republican senator joining together to sabotage the president's efforts to close the facility now faced with this opposition the president didn't double down on his efforts to remove this the scar from our national moral character instead retreated in july two thousand and nine the president issued a six month extension to his pledge to close gitmo within one year and at the end of two thousand and

laughter ] [cheers and applause] [ laughter ] now, the special envoy in charge of closing the prison daniel fried, seen here judging mankind and finding us wanting, has been [ laughter ] reassigned to work on issues like iran and syria. that's just more obama cronyism. the guy fails at one job, so they give him a cushy post solving the middle east. [ laughter ] folks, i applaud the obama administration's mature decision. clearly these detainees are going to be there until they die. so it's time we embrace gitmo as a part of this country. and not as a place for permanently imprisoning people without charges in a kafka-esque labyrinth of human despair but more as a terrorist retirement community jihadi meadows. [ laughter ] after all, like our seniors, they wear brightly-colored jumpsuits, they're often on a liquid diet, and we try our best not to think about them. [ laughter ] and who knows, guantanamo bay may even become popular with our own seniors. after all, it's just like florida but with fewer cubans. [ laughter ] we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> stephen: w

detention center in cuba now transferred away the white house has not so far signed a replacement daniel fried was picked for the job in two thousand and nine by president obama who had vowed to shut down the notorious prison fried work to convince other nations to take kuantan him over inmates considered to be low risk but he soon saw his job grow more difficult with new laws complicate complicating the riprap creation of detainees now of the almost eight hundred inmates that have passed through guantanamo only nine have had charges brought against them that's including the five nine eleven suspects currently facing pretrial hearings well meanwhile investigations into america's so-called black sites abroad are making little headway a years long probe into covert cia jails in poland particular hasn't investigators frustrated with washington not volunteering much help and it's archie's arena glues can now reports even if the details were forthcoming justice might pre-nup. one tunnel may hall go all the headlines but all the interested it means people are moving their focus elsewhere so-called b

center in cuba now transferred elsewhere the white house has so far not assigned a replacement daniel fried was picked for the job in two thousand and nine by president of allah with valor to shut down a tourist prison freed worked to convince other nations to take those gone time inmates considered to be low risk the new laws complicated the repatriation of detainees one of the almost eight hundred inmates that have passed through and time ago only nine have had charges brought against them including the five nine eleven suspects currently facing pretrial hearings i mean one investigations into america's secret prisons abroad are making little headway a years long probe into covert cia jails in poland in particular has left investigators frustrated with washington not volunteering much help as our teaser into the school reports even if the details were forthcoming justice might not be. guantanamo may hold all the headlines but all the interested it means people are moving their focus elsewhere so-called black side secret prisons were established by the cia during its well publicized war on

special envoy tasked with working on the closure of the one ton m obey prison no replacement for daniel fried has been named increasing fears among critics that the notorious jail could remain open indefinitely but friday was assigned to deal with repertory aiding and abetting resettling i should say detainees in two thousand and nine shortly after president obama promised to close the jail but with restrictions on transfers of the camp's prisoners imposed by congress he was left with little to do a closer frys office comes as five guantanamo prison printed prisoners are facing trial over nine eleven during the pretrial hearings defense lawyers asked the judge to publicly disclose classified details about so-called cia black sites where they claim their clients were tortured. calls for more transparency on the u.s. keeping at interrogating prisoners overseas are failing to get any response the probe into a cia jail in poland is continuing for five years now with little help from washington and as our teams are going to go to school reports whatever the outcome it could be swept under the carp

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. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: daniel fried, the special envoy for shutting down gitmo has left the job and won't beold he plans to open a nude car wash. so basically, the office for closing gitmo has been closed. it's like a dog out-living its owner. something jasper dreams of daily. his job was to resettle detainees, which is realistic to ask a bystander to hold your bomb. bush knew that, but he is a republican so the press doesn't care. the obama administration doesn't feel the long held goal to close gitmo is realistic but that's okay, because everything under obama is okay. if i were him and sometimes i pretend i am at night in my closet i start a game called, "what can i get away with?" and i spend time floating odd n f.b.i. investigation. listen to the sot here to get menendez reaction. >> senator, i want to ask you to set the record straight i am hearing all these stories about the f.b.i. investigating you. >> bob: we have heard all the rumors from the daily caller. all the rumors. there is solid press evidence to go on. >> kimberly: bob, we thought this would make you happy. we called senat

thousand and nine to close gitmo came and went but what happened to that special envoy remember daniel fried that guy the guy at the start of the president's first term who is specifically assigned to closing gitmo well yesterday we learned that freed was reassigned to do work for the state department on iran and syria has special envoy post devoted to closing gitmo. it won't be filled it will disappear and its vacancy will be more confirmation that president obama never had the stomach for this fight to begin with yes much of the blame for get most staying open rests squarely on congress not on the president after all had congress consented with the president's request for funding to transfer detainees to illinois would be an empty shell today but as we've seen over and over and over again with the public option cap and trade the disclose act the bush tax cuts labor struggles in wisconsin you name it when the going gets tough the president gets going he had numerous opportunities to fight congress on this issue but he remained silent and then embraced mortgage momentary tribunals perhaps he

♪ ♪ >> greg: daniel fried, the special envoy for shutting down gitmo has left the job and won't be replacede plans to open a nude car wash. so basically, the office for closing gitmo has been closed. it's like a dog out-living its owner. something jasper dreams of daily. his job was to resettle detainees, which is realistic to ask a bystander to hold your bomb. bush knew that, but he is a republican so the press doesn't care. the obama administration doesn't feel the long held goal to close gitmo is realistic but that's okay, because everything under obama is okay. if i were him and sometimes i pretend i am at night in my closet i start a game called, "what can i get away with?" and i spend time floating odd proposals to the press and bet on how frothy their response would be. he could have space colony for gigiraffes. he could kill a vital oil pipeline for no reason. cause colleges to slash professor's officers to escape the wrath of obamacare. alow gun running to mexico that kills a border agent. spend millions on losers take solyndra that goes bankruptcy as the economy screams for real h

fried. >> i wanted to thank danielle for the work that she did. there were two co-chairs one left the city family and got another job and she tooked over the work herself and even though i have criticisms i want to acknowledge she did an excellent job getting this through the process it went through and there were a lot of ideas that people had. there were other stuff want in the report and nothing to do with renewable energy generation and it could be used by the in the future and i wanted to acknowledge that. >> thank you mr. fried and we do acknowledge her hard work and excellent presentation and we look forward to working with you. unless there are other comments madam clerk if you could call item four please. >> item number four, 2013 lafco meeting schedule. >> great. colleagues, as we're nearing the end of the calendar year this is our opportunity to talk about what our calendar looks like for the next coming calendar year, and i think you have a memo in your packets that's also available to members of the public that provides some recommend

fried. >> i'm going to turn it over to danielle and give a presentation of the report and we are availableor questions after that. >> great. thank you. >> thanks jason. i will return through this fairly quickly, especially the background which you are all familiar with, but if you questions please stop me. awz know san francisco has a long history of climate action and a lot of the work that we have done over the last couple years is guided by our climate change ordinances and our plan to be updated and the sf puc plan and the city set forth aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets. san francisco emissions come from a variety of sources, but electricity is about 25% of that, so it's one of the largest areas for reduction in the city. san francisco's electricity supply is actually quite clean to the national average. we are 41% renewable if you include hydro electric power and hetch hetchy and pg&e hydro generation, but the goal as set out by mayor newsom is to become 100% renewable and we have a task force comprised of leaders and community and stakeholders, environmental ngo's and the