Posted on 08/14/2015 2:04:32 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Department of Defense notified lawmakers Friday that teams will visit two military installations in the United States — Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and the Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C. — to conduct “site surveys” looking into transferring a “limited number” of Guantanamo detainees, Pentagon and Capitol Hill sources told Fox News.
The move, coming on the same day Secretary of State John Kerry marked the re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, has already triggered a backlash on Capitol Hill. But, despite existing congressional restrictions on moving the detainees to U.S. soil, the notice itself suggests officials are wasting no time exploring transfer options for those at the controversial Cuba prison camp.
One Capitol Hill source, reading from the notification, said the first Defense Department survey team was due to visit Fort Leavenworth “starting today [Friday].”
The Naval Brig in Charleston will be visited in the “next several weeks,” said another source, reading from the same notification, which went out Friday morning.
Legally, the administration is still barred from transferring Guantanamo detainees to the United States, according to laws passed by Congress starting in 2010. Building or modifying facilities to house Gitmo inmates is also prohibited in the United States.
“Perhaps DoD does not think this is part of that ‘build or modify’ section,” one source told Fox News, questioning DoD’s funding of the site survey teams visiting the two military installations.
After learning of the survey teams, lawmakers representing Kansas vowed to fight any proposed transfers to their state. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said in a statement that the move "reflects another egregious overstep by this administration."
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Looks like you are right.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
I hear the nuclear waste repository still has some room in it.
If these illegal aliens, terrorists and assorted other neer-do-wells start murdering many more Americans, what will happen to our “leaders” who have allowed (made) this happen?
FUBO. Congress better do everything within their power to STOP the Commie White House from giving their Commie Cubans OUR land. The Russians would just love to move in, too.
Keep them on the floating prison cargo ships we supposedly have in the carribean.
We better change this crap we have in Washington right away or we’re gone..............
Amen to that.
I would LOVE to see a few Marines or SEALs go to Guantanamo and STOP the Cubans from taking it. Then hopefully a REAL Republican takes office and sends more military assets to wrestle it BACK from Cuba if 0dungheap gives it away.
Give each Liberal politician in DC one to take home.
Why, they’ll be elected again.
Suggested locations:
Hyannisport, Mass.
Chappaqua, NY
Upper East Side
Berkeley, CA
Ithaca, NY
Beverly Hills
Madison, WI
People that demanded we re-elect the house/senate leaders that campaigned on working with Obama have little to bitch about. In fact, their voting with depraved indifference to their country guaranteed this outcome.
Lesser evil. No matter what huh? Choke on it liberal ‘conservatives’. You got what you demanded.
Aleutians
They belong at the Thanksgiving tables
of the families of the “US” Congress.
First two to transfer to Leavenworth should be Obama and Kerry. Save a place for Hillary.
Looks like that’s the plan.
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