Posted on 06/21/2007 3:53:06 PM PDT by Eurotwit
The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and move terror suspects from there to military prisons on U.S. soil.
According to the Associated Press, President George W. Bush's top national security and legal advisers are expected to discuss the move at the White House on Friday and it appears a consensus is developing for the first time among Bush's inner circle.
They will consider a new proposal to shut the highly controversial prison, built at a US military enclave on the southern tip of Cuba, and transfer nearly 400 detainees to one or more U.S. Defense Department facilities, including the maximum security military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, where they could face trial, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing internal deliberations.
Officials familiar with the agenda of Friday's meeting said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Peter Pace and Vice President Dick Cheney are likely to attend.
It was not immediately clear whether the meeting will result in a final recommendation on Guantanamo to President Bush..
I have totally given up on Bush and the Republican Party. He was M. Tough on Terror until the Dems won. Now he can’t roll over for them fast enough. What a coward!!!!
The Administration is denying this report..looks like the Bushbashers got their pound of flesh though.
“should probably be sent back to the countries of which they are citizens.”
This would be an acceptable plan. Send them back home where the prisons are medieval and probably don’t have soccer, nice prayer rugs and glazed chicken.
But, don’t send them to Kansas, please Mr. President.
Vacating Gitmo would be a way to eliminate a stupid DemocRat television ad attacking the GOP and administration for “torturing” poor prisons at during the elections.
Administration denial, especially on this one, doesn’t convince me. It’s possible our govt is expecting trouble in Cuba and doesn’t want to have to deal with that trouble with the additional complication of Gitmo prisoners. Also, a little shakeup and reassortment is good cover for...the kind of retooling you do when trouble is coming over the hill.
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