Posted on 06/11/2014 9:52:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The White House is making plans to transfer more detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay despite the mounting political furor over the exchange of five Taliban prisoners for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, officials said Tuesday.
Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said the White House was "making progress on a number of additional promising opportunities" to transfer more prisoners and that officials were reviewing Yemeni detainees "on a case-by-case basis."
"While we do not generally discuss transfers before they take place, we are fully committed to implementing the president's direction that we transfer detainees to the greatest extent possible, consistent with national security and our humane-treatment policy, as we work toward closing the facility at Guantanamo Bay," she said.
Hayden said 17 inmates had been moved out of Guantanamo in the last 13 months, including the five former Taliban officials transferred to Qatar in the swap for Bergdahl.
The future of America's most notorious prison camp, and its 149 remaining inmates, has been in doubt since the White House announced the exchange May 31.
But President Obama, who has sought unsuccessfully to shut the U.S. military prison in Cuba since he took office, hinted strongly last week that he still intended to move more detainees out as the Pentagon winds down its war in Afghanistan.
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He can do whatever he chooses.
We give south of the border Obama and they take back all the illegals maybe as well?
To where? Iran? Afghanistan? North Korea? Cuba main?..............
Does this mean he has consulted Congress this time? Of it this his way of “notifying” them?
Seem reasonable.
al Qaeda has taken several new countries
and needs Generals.
When they say “transfered” they really mean “released”.
A newspaper account of this will appear every day, inuring the public to what will occur and no one will notice when it does and we lose a little more of America.
One more transfer and if the House does not start impeachment America will come unglued.
RE: He can do whatever he chooses.
The question is: Why does America let him?
No it won't.
Sh*t, as a hat-trick, he oughta sign an Executive Order repealing the Second and First Amendments.
Why not.
Then he can sign an Executive Order banning all private property and making capitalism illegal.
Let’s get this f****g civil war started. Now.
The only requirement for a detainee to be released is their word that they will indeed try to kill Americans in the future.
Hell, if I’m Obama and I hate America, I pardon the Gitmo detainees, and using military enforcement, make them all State Governers, Agency Directors, and Czars.
We are nationally insane. We will stay insane and crash eventually, or regain sanity and solve our problems. Status quo is not an option.
“The question is: Why does America let him?”
He is God to half of American voters and 99% of ABCCBSCNNNBCFOX/AP, and NEVER lies, only “generalizes”.
Ask any serious Hussein Head and they might be a little “disappointed” at “some” of his decisions, but they generally love and trust him and hate anyone who dares to criticize his omnipotence, especially Fox News, which they never watch because it’s “right wing”.
What the hell does he care? By the time the next attack occurs on our soil from these bastards, he’ll be long gone.
RE: He is God to half of American voters and 99% of ABCCBSCNNNBCFOX/AP, and NEVER lies, only “generalizes”.
ACTOR JAIMIE FOXX ON WINNING AN AWARD: “Give all thanks to God and Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama”
See here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lyGv8UZgM
When the Taliban reported that they had Bergdahl, their first request was for 15 Gitmo prisoners and I think it was $5 million.
I guess Obama is giving them their demands (5 years later) on the installment plan.
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