Posted on 07/27/2015 3:25:05 PM PDT by Whenifhow
A plan being drafted for closing the Guantanamo military prison will call for the transfer to US prisons of possibly dozens of inmates deemed too dangerous to release, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser said, setting up a fight with congressional opponents.
Outlining the White House proposal that will soon be sent to Congress, Lisa Monaco, one of Obama's top national-security aides, told the Aspen Security Conference on Saturday that the US would step up the transfers of 52 detainees cleared for resettlement in other countries.
The plan calls for the rest of the inmates at the US naval base in Cuba to be brought to the US to "Supermax" or military prisons for trials or continued military detention, Monaco said. Some 116 detainees remain at Guantanamo, many held more than a decade without charge or trial.
Obama's new push to meet his longstanding pledge to shut the internationally condemned prison is sure to face strong resistance from Republicans who control Congress. Legislation currently bans the transfer of detainees to the US mainland.
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The plan, which the White House says is nearing completion, will include establishing "security protocols" to increase resettlement of prisoners in countries other than their own.
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We will pay Cuba $100 million to take it off our hands. Kerry said this was our best and final offer.
Russia will pay Cuba 10 to 100x that to let them lease it afterwards.
Shirley can't be referring to McConnell and Boehner, can he?
Putin will wind up with it as a Russian military base, and again we’ll have nuclear missiles 90 miles from our shores.
I’ll bet someone has to hold Obama on the toilet so he can hit the water.
Get out the old “duck and cover” booklets from the 50’s.
Is he going to sell it to ISIS and turn the proceeds over to Castro?
One commie helping another. Or perhaps Raul has a plan for Odungo after (and IF) he leaves office? Odungo will have his own private compound at Guantanamo!
Now, now...those metal desks that can hold a frickin' dept store will protect us! Hide underneath them!
I have expected from day one of the Obama regime that he would give Guantanamo to Cuba. I continue to be surprised that it hasn’t happened yet.
“brought to the US to “Supermax” “—
Nope, Supermax are cruel and unusual punishment (solitary), release them after they get them here.
“is sure to face strong resistance from Republicans who control Congress.” —
No. Unless I don’t get what ‘strong resistance’ means.
Maybe there are a six or eight fag tranny traitors in custody in Iraq that Obama can trade for them...
Load them on a Boat, hoist an ISIS Flag, set the Throttle and point it Due North.
Take everyone off the Boat except the Prisoners and Torpedo the Boat when it crosses our 12 Mile Limit.
Laughable.
Let’s make it his retirement home. After all, these prisoners are not dangerous and what better way to prove it than have his two young daughters living within the confines of that just normalized island.
“I have expected from day one of the Obama regime that he would give Guantanamo to Cuba. I continue to be surprised that it hasn’t happened yet.”
Ditto. And, somehow, this will happen regardless of any “action” by our esteemed(not!) Congress.
Yea, bring them to the US and assign them government lawyers so they can make a mockery of our justice system.
So the towelheads can indoctrinate other prisoners into the violent ideology.
Gonna put them in upstate New York? Lots of hard up women looking for love there.
Yeah, right....like that's going to stop him!
Alcatraz
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