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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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To: Kaslin

Like laws matter to Obama.


21 posted on 02/24/2016 1:11:34 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Trump, and Rubio are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Kaslin
Someone is setting the stage to be confirmed as our next Supreme Court justice. Nice try, Loretta.

I have a feeling Cuba will be deciding what to do with the Gitmo detainees.

22 posted on 02/24/2016 1:26:41 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Kaslin
How is it legal for him to import their support network?

The "Good Ones" are commanded to financially provide for the bad ones! It's their LAW!

23 posted on 02/24/2016 1:29:01 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Bingo
My first thought also


24 posted on 02/24/2016 1:40:49 PM PST by NWHawk (Not Quirky)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Like you, I’d croak if that ever happened.


25 posted on 02/24/2016 1:41:21 PM PST by sanjuanbob (Skeptic)
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To: Kaslin

The simple fact that something was illegal certainly hasn’t stopped him (or her, for that matter) thus far.


26 posted on 02/24/2016 1:53:19 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Kaslin

bump


27 posted on 02/24/2016 2:13:01 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: bert

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

Exactly...


28 posted on 02/24/2016 2:19:08 PM PST by VMI70
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To: Kaslin

In today’s America it makes news when the Attorney General says the Justice Department will enforce and follow the law.


29 posted on 02/24/2016 2:50:21 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Politics: from the greek "poly" [many] and the english "ticks" [blood sucking parasites])
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

If Loretta had prosecuted Lerner, she might have some credibility, but she has none.


30 posted on 02/24/2016 2:58:29 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: Kaslin

Regardless of what Obozo will actually DO, it really makes him look (even more) stupid and out of touch when his own AG says something like this only a couple of days later. You’d have thought that even he would have had someone make a phone call, or order Lynch to the Oval Office, and find this out before he opened his pie hole.

Stupid is as stupid does.


31 posted on 02/24/2016 3:30:15 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Kaslin

Kas, you know that isn’t going to happen. Much as we’d like to see it, it just isn’t going to happen.

The collective testicular fortitude to bring impeachment hearings against “the first black president” is just not there.


32 posted on 02/24/2016 3:41:11 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Kaslin

he will simply release them OVERSEAS....

hey when do we get to witness the execution of

KSM

MAKE SURE ITS ON YOUTUBE.....
light him on fire and toss him off a 1/4 mile high cliff
HE CAN RELIVE WHAT THE WTC JUMPERS WENT THROUGH


33 posted on 02/24/2016 3:56:29 PM PST by zzwhale
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To: Kaslin

We need to keep GITMO if only to serve as a home for Obama when he leaves the Red House. Then he can talk to Castro through the barbed wire fence during Sunday visits.


34 posted on 02/24/2016 4:00:46 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

She’s hoping for that SC nomination.....


35 posted on 02/24/2016 4:02:19 PM PST by kjam22 (America needs forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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To: Kaslin
Obie doesn't care - he is the Emperor and Loretta, like 99.5% of this administration will obey her Emperor.

The one I am waiting on is to see if James Comey steps down after boy Emperor Obie instructs Loretta to NOT indict Bubba Klintoon's 'wife'.
36 posted on 02/24/2016 5:25:56 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: NFHale
The collective testicular fortitude to bring impeachment hearings against “the first black president” is just not there.

The GOP as it is currently constituted will NEVER EVER bring Impeachment Articles against a RAT. NEVER EVER. IMPEACHMENT OF A RAT HAS BEEN READ OUT OF THE CONSITUTION ALONG WITH SO MANY OTHER ARTICLES.
37 posted on 02/24/2016 5:29:12 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Kaslin
"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 that's not all....


38 posted on 02/24/2016 5:34:47 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)
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To: Kaslin
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.

We all know how he gets around that. He just decrees he's doing it anyway, Republicans huff and puff, and the agencies do his bidding.

39 posted on 02/24/2016 8:08:55 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Cheerio

No need to yell ... I completely agree.
:^)


40 posted on 02/25/2016 4:36:56 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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