Posted on 05/06/2015 11:55:13 AM PDT by PROCON
Retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens said this week that the government should compensate detainees still being held at Guantanamo Bay even after authorities determined that they did not pose a threat to the United States.
Stevens’s call to give reparations to dozens of detainees at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba comes as the Pentagon is racing to move these inmates ahead of possible congressional action that could restrict transfers.
In a speech Monday, Stevens pointed to the detainees who have already been approved for a transfer out of Guantanamo Bay, saying that some or all of them “are entitled to some sort of reparation.”
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OK, out of his pocket.
They’re enemies who tried to kill us and our forces. We should do nothing for them except force feed them ham and make them train dogs.
He is probably only more so than he was 20+ years ago. Are you sure he is demented? He could just be PWL (Pontificating While Liberal).
he really is generous with our money, isn’t he?
I thought he was dead.
LOL
Cynic
It doesn't just mean "something for your trouble".
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