WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that if he could go back and do his presidency over again, he would have immediately shut down the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"I think I would have closed Guantanamo on the first day," Obama said to applause at an event in Cleveland, Ohio.

How about now, on the seven hundred and eighty-eighth day?

But, according to Hannity:

On his show March 10, 2015, Fox News host Sean Hannity said that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., acted counter to President George W. Bush's strategy of diplomatically isolating Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, by traveling to Syria in 2007 to open up relations. Pelosi was then the House speaker.

Yet this barely caused a ripple at the time, Hannity suggested.

"In 2007, when Nancy Pelosi met with President Assad of Syria against the Bush administration's wishes, nobody got upset," Hannity said. "But now this is the greatest sin of all times, and they're being called traitors in the New York Daily News on their cover."

Betcha didn't know this:

Hammill emphasized Wednesday that Pelosi's delegation included then-Rep. David Hobson (R-Ohio), a senior defense appropriator; it was preceded just days earlier by a similar visit to Damascus by GOP Reps. Joe Pitts (Pa.), Robert Aderholt (Ala.) and former GOP Rep. Frank Wolf (Va.). And Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.) met with Assad just a day after Pelosi did -- a meeting that led Johndroe to comment, "We just don't think this is helpful."

While Pelosi was the most senior U.S. representative, Hammill also noted that she coordinated the visit with support from the administration.

"This visit was organized by the Bush State Department, executed by the Bush Defense Department, and officials from the Bush Administration's Embassy at the time in Damascus even sat in the meeting with President Assad," Hammill said. "As Republican Congressman David Hobson said at the time about the delegation's visit to Syria, 'I think we actually helped the administration's position by showing there's not dissension.'

"The comparison between the Republican Senator letter to Iran and Leader's Pelosi bipartisan delegation to the Middle East in 2007 does not stand up to any level of scrutiny," he charged.

--This report was updated on March 12 at 9:25 a.m.

The Likud Party, led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has defied expectations and emerged as the winner in Tuesday's parliamentary elections, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Isaac Herzog, Israel's opposition leader, contacted Netanyahu on Wednesday to concede, Reuters reported.

The final results, as reported by Haaretz, showed Likud won 30 seats while the Zionist Union came in second with 24 seats.

KCBS reported that the "no trespassing" signs outside the primary church for Archdiocese of San Francisco, Saint Mary's Cathedral, did not mention what would happen to the homeless who tried to sleep under the cover of the building's doorway.

At random times throughout the night, "[w]ater pours from a hole in the ceiling, about 30 feet above, drenching the alcove and anyone in it," the station noted. "The shower ran for about 75 seconds, every 30 to 60 minutes while we were there, starting before sunset, simultaneously in all four doorways. KCBS witnessed it soak homeless people, and their belongings."
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A neighbor pointed out to KCBS that the watering system was not only an "inhuman" way to treat people, it also was a waste of water during a serious drought.

Cathedral staff confirmed that the system had been in place for about a year, and that it was intended to discourage homeless people from seeking shelter in the church's doorway. link

TV station KCBS reports that Saint Mary's Cathedral installed the sprinklers specifically to keep the homeless out of its covered doorways, a popular destination because of their relative shelter and safety. The archdiocese issued a statement after the report saying the sprinklers were being removed immediately. The reason? As KCBS also notes, the system was installed without the proper city permits.

The archdiocese explains that it put the sprinklers in place as a "safety, security and cleanliness measure," because the homeless were leaving trash, needles, and other nasty items in places where churchgoers walked. "The idea was not to remove those persons, but to encourage them to relocate to other areas" of the cathedral, says the statement. "We are sorry that our intentions have been misunderstood and recognized the method used was ill-conceived." link

The autopsy results alone do not indicate the direction Brown was facing when he received two wounds to his right arm ...

Thus physical forensic evidence in the form of autopsy shows that he could have been shot from behind. The DOJ just chose to discount the 75% of witnesses who made that statement, even though the autopsy showed that their statements were valid and possible.

And same with the Hands Up part in the report:

Although there are several individuals who have stated that Brown held his hands up in an unambiguous sign of surrender prior to Wilson shooting him dead, their accounts do not support a prosecution of Wilson....

Certain other witnesses who originally stated Brown had his hands up in surrender recanted their original accounts, admitting that they did not witness the shooting or parts of it ...

While credible witnesses gave varying accounts of exactly what Brown was doing with his hands as he moved toward Wilson - i.e., balling them, holding them out, or pulling up his pants up - and varying accounts of how he was moving - i.e., "charging," moving in "slow motion," or "running" - they all establish that Brown was moving toward Wilson when Wilson shot him....

 Although some witnesses state that Brown held his hands up at shoulder level with his palms facing outward for a brief moment, these same witnesses describe Brown then dropping his hands and "charging" at Wilson.

Do those words say that "Hands Up Don't Shoot" was "based on a lie"???

Or do those words say that "Hands Up Don't Shoot" was an exaggeration of the facts.

Nearly all witnesses who saw the shooting testified to "hands up" in one form or another for a moment -- even Team Wilson witnesses.

But in the DOJ opinion how his hands were up, how far they were up, and for how long just didn't rise to the level of prosecution.

Clearly Capeheart and others write their articles without reading sources and checking facts and don't know the difference between "probable", "possible" and "prosecutable".

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Louisiana State Police trooper says millionaire Robert Durst has been booked on weapons charges in that state - on top of a first-degree murder charge lodged by Los Angeles authorities. Trooper Melissa Matey told the Associated Press that an arrest warrant was issued for the former Limp Bizkit frontman and he was rebooked in the Orleans Parish Jail on Monday under two new charges.