Posted on 01/04/2017 5:00:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux
President Obama is expected to transfer additional detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in his final days in office, despite objections from President-elect Donald Trump.
“I would expect, at this point, additional transfers to be announced,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on Tuesday, CNN reported, after Trump warned against further releases of “extremely dangerous” remaining detainees at the Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba.
The New York Times reported last month that the Obama administration intends to transfer 17 or 18 detainees before the president leaves office, leaving 41 or 42 prisoners remaining at the military prison. The last detainee transfer was announced by the Defense Department at the start of December, meaning that 59 prisoners currently remain at Guantanamo Bay.
Obama has accelerated his push to close Guantanamo over the last year, transferring numerous prisoners to foreign countries and delivering a plan to Congress that would involve moving detainees not cleared for release to stateside prisons. However, lawmakers have maintained restrictions on moving Guantanamo detainees to the United States, preventing the president from fulfilling his campaign promise of closing the facility.
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Mad Dog needs to get on the phone and induce foot dragging
I was guessing 12 yesterday for the petulant Fraud to spite Trump and America.
This transfer can be stopped in 15 seconds. Trump can tweet a comment saying that if any country accepts any additional prisoners then our future relationship with them will be severely impacted. End of transfers.
Obama is releasing terrorist killers. Every death at the hands of these monsters should be laid at the feet of the Islamist Obama. He needs to be arrested for murders and war crimes and spend his days in Gitmo.
US military needs to take Obama into “protective custody” until Trump is inaugurated.
Actually, Obama is ordering the release of prisoners. He doesn’t really know what happen down there.
I would hope the place is locked down and the clock run out...... at the suggestion of the incoming Sec Def.
There NEVER was a birth certificate that was real.
Caliph Obama is responsible for the tuberculosis,
mumps, terrorists, and destruction that is in the USA.
So, OF COURSE, the pRes_ _ent will release more terrorists.
He’ll probably leave one single detainee in there, the token detainee.
Time for everyone to “stand down” Obama’s Orders.
Time for everyone to “stand down” Obama’s Orders.
Be careful Bammy, one of these goat shagging peaceful co-religionists could bring Sharia Justice upon your neck. It is probably too much to hope for.
I hope someone’s tracking every one of his parolees, and will make public their future crimes.
Then their victims should enjoin a class action lawsuit against Barky. Clean him out.
Haven’t “we” been laundering the transfer of terrorists from Gitmo through the terrorists for whom we built office complexes in Qatar?
The terrorists in Qatar likely know their days of funding by US taxpayers are very short anyway.
This is just icing on the cake for the Fraud. Anything he can still do to hurt America makes him and his worshippers very happy.
Mad Dog needs to send word that further commo from Command is garbled, [lost commo] and that effective 01/20, new lines of commo will be put in place.
Agreed that POTUS44 can order release of prisoners, but any marine that makes fast a response to that order will face the music later.
Alternative - Drone aircraft with passengers and partial load of fuel
You just KNOW the other countries he is talking to about taking them are holding out for a king’s ransom. They can see how desperate he is.
Excellent point!
I knew that. The bastard thinks that the savages were jailed unfairly by an evil George Bush, and is going to let them out so they can go back to planning how to kill us.
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