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Loretta Lynch Confirms: It Is Illegal to Transfer GITMO Detainees to the United States
Townhall.com ^ | February 24, 2016 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 02/24/2016 12:37:33 PM PST by Kaslin

Testifying in front of the House Appropriations Subcommittee Wednesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch reiterated that transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay Prison to the United States is against the law. From the Washington Times

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that federal law flatly prevents President Obama from sending of the the detainees from Guantanamo Bay to U.S. territory, hurting his ability to follow through on his new closure plan.

"That is the state of the law," she said, pointing to the most recent defense policy law passed late last year, which cleared Congress on a bipartisan vote and which Mr. Obama himself signed into law.

Lynch also pointed this out during testimony in November of last year. 

"With respect to individuals being transferred to the United States, the law currently does not allow that," Lynch testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee. "Certainly it is the position of the Department of Justice that we would follow the law of the land in regard on that issue."

President Obama sent Congress a plan Monday to permanently close the prison, which includes illegally bringing dozens of high-level terrorists to prison facilities in the United States. 

Speaker Paul Ryan immediately pushed back on the proposal, reminding President Obama about bipartisan legislation recently passed in the House and Senate banning detainees from being transferred. Today, Ryan threatened the White House with a lawsuit should President Obama proceed unilaterally.

House Speaker Paul Ryan says GOP preparing legal challenge keep Guantanamo Bay prison open. https://t.co/Iyh4PRXm5D pic.twitter.com/Wv5YzMLKX4— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) February 24, 2016

"If the President proceeds with knowingly breaking the law and asking the military to knowingly break the law he will be met with fierce bipartisan opposition here in Congress and we are taking all legal preparations necessary to meet that resistance," Ryan said during a press conference Wednesday. 

There are also rumblings of states preparing lawsuits against the administration to prevent the transfer of detainees to their prisons.


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Front Page News; Government; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; canada; cuba; doj; gitmo; gtmo; guantamobay; guantanamobay; lorettalynch; newyork; paulryan; texas
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1 posted on 02/24/2016 12:37:33 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I would think any such obvious act of malfeasance would be met by more than just opposition.


2 posted on 02/24/2016 12:41:58 PM PST by Rennes Templar (President Trump: It's all over but the counting)
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Mr Speaker, you must start immediate Impeachment proceedings against this president.
3 posted on 02/24/2016 12:42:11 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

Said AG Lynch, “However, the president has a pen and a phone, so I do not see any legal problems with his plan”.

What was left out of the article....


4 posted on 02/24/2016 12:42:33 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Kaslin

Sure the point is to set all zeros muzzle terrorist buddies free.


5 posted on 02/24/2016 12:44:58 PM PST by Gasshog (Fed-Up America & Donald Trump vs. Career Politicans - Guess who Wins?)
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To: Kaslin
"Certainly it is the position of the Department of Justice that we would follow the law of the land in regard on that issue

Well that's an interesting statement.
6 posted on 02/24/2016 12:46:46 PM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin

Lynch thinking "I wonder how many flies he'll allow to enter his mouth before he swallows"


7 posted on 02/24/2016 12:46:50 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Won’t slow this tyrant down for a second.


8 posted on 02/24/2016 12:47:12 PM PST by sarge83
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Folks, if you're reading this, you know what needs to happen.
If you can, please support the forum at this time. Thank you.

9 posted on 02/24/2016 12:47:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Kaslin

He is going to hand Gitmo back to Cuba when he goes next month.

He will use his authority as CIC to order the military bug out. Prisoners will be left behind. The Cubans will then come in and do with them what they will.

Which could be to turn them all free, which will light a fire under Congress to let him bring the worst actors to Supermax.

You heard it here first.


10 posted on 02/24/2016 12:48:05 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin
"Certainly it is the position of the Department of Justice that we would follow the law of the land in regard on that issue."

But not necessarily other ones.

11 posted on 02/24/2016 12:52:11 PM PST by henkster
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To: Kaslin

Would the dictator in chief fire her for obeying the law? I wouldn’t put it past him.


12 posted on 02/24/2016 12:54:41 PM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Kaslin

But she is frantically trying to find a way around that...


13 posted on 02/24/2016 12:59:32 PM PST by Mr. K (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: Kaslin

Why doesn’t dear leader simply go to Guantanamo and personally, murder the lot of them?

Putin would do it on pay per view.

Who would complain?

No guts, no glory.


14 posted on 02/24/2016 1:01:29 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: Kaslin

That racist witch.


15 posted on 02/24/2016 1:02:50 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin

Did Obama ask for her resignation yet?


16 posted on 02/24/2016 1:08:05 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: Kaslin
"Loretta Lynch Confirms: It Is Illegal to Transfer GITMO Detainees to the United States..."

.... So what! ..... Barack ..... pen ...... phone .... blah blah blah .....

17 posted on 02/24/2016 1:09:09 PM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Kaslin

When has being against the law ever stopped Obama?


18 posted on 02/24/2016 1:09:22 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Kaslin

Which means they plan to do it.


19 posted on 02/24/2016 1:09:29 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Kaslin

So, the only recourse is to let them go......that is what Obama will do. Freedom and a pardon


20 posted on 02/24/2016 1:11:23 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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