Why Is It So Hard to Find Some News? -- Not a Bakken Story

Don't worry, we will return to the Bakken shortly.

I was completely unaware of this. I watch the news pretty closely, and yet I almost missed this. It appears Congress has put to rest any possibility of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison holding terrorists or moving any terrorists to American soil for trial.

Congress on Wednesday signaled it won't close the prison at Guantanamo Bay or allow any of its suspected terrorist detainees to be transferred to the US,  dealing what is likely the final blow to President Obama's campaign pledge to shutter the facility in Cuba.

The move to block the prison's closure was written into a massive year-end spending bill that passed the House on Wednesday evening on a vote of 212-206, part of a last-minute legislative rush by Democrats to push through their priorities before ceding the House to Republican control in January.

I assume this story was reported in the NY Times, but I could not find it at Times on-line site. I assume it's there, and, no, I didn't google it.

The bad news: I can only imagine the amount of pork in this bill. Look at the narrow margin of victory.