Posted on 01/22/2009 5:56:38 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
Over the objections of a large majority of 9/11 family members, President Barack Obama is expected to sign an Executive Order today directing that the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base be closed:
Relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks, who were at the base this week to observe pretrial hearings, told reporters they oppose any halt to the trials. "The safest place to have these trials is Guantanamo Bay. If they were to move to the homeland it would endanger all of us," said Lorraine Arias Believeau of Barnegat, New Jersey, whose brother, Adam, was killed in the attacks.
In addition, President Obama has directed a 120-day suspension of detainee trials so that, "...his administration [can] review the military commissions process..." and will order the closure of all overseas "C.I.A. prisons." On January 14, 2009, the Washington Times reported, "The Pentagon is looking at several military bases in the U.S. as possible sites to hold terrorist suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including Camp Pendleton in San Diego and Fort Leavenworth in Kansas."
Debra Burlingame is skeptical about President Obama's stated intent and whether he believes Guantanamo can be safely closed within one year. She offers that the detainees are far more dangerous than Obama imagined prior to being read-in on their classified files. Yesterday, she discussed this with Neil Cavuto [video report].
But how dangerous is the average detainee at Guantanamo? Listen to Gordon Gucullu. Beginning in 2005, he made five trips to Guantanamo, spent 3 1/2 years researching the facility, and embedded with our troops there. He starts out by describing the frequent attacks made by the Islamic jihadist detainees there upon our troops:
The Wall Street Journal weighed in this morning:
One suggestion is moving the remaining prisoners to Kansas's Fort Leavenworth, but state politicians are already sounding a red alert. The military base is integrated into the community and, lacking Guantanamo's isolation and defense capacities, would instantly become a potential terror target. Expect similar protests from other states that are involuntarily entered in this sweepstakes.
The New York Times did its ritual dance of joy this morning. As expected, after it has once again endangered American lives through a successful propaganda campaign, it paraded the closing as the main headline this morning [Red Square emphasis added mine]. For the benefit of those non-Times readers, it also does this whenever it reveals America's classified secrets:
Lastly, Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) announced that he'd take the detainees:
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said he would take the detainees in his own district, which lies just a few miles from the field near Shanksville, Pa., where United Flight 93 crashed after it was hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, [murdering all 40] people aboard."Sure, I'd take them. They're no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo," Murtha said, calling the Guantanamo prison a "sore in the United States' moral standards."
"There's no reason not to put them in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners."
Congressman Murtha offered no opinion on the morality of willfully endangering his constituents in Pennsylvania's 12th District.
LLS
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Thanks!
Even though we knew this EO was coming, this was a foolish decision. Downright dumb! The first of many is my guess.
LLS
He doesn’t have a facility to hold them in his district. But if he can get the taxpayers to build a 300 million dollar hi-tech max security prison he is all for it, is what he is saying.
Well, time to go to the DU sewer and see anyone thinks that the 9-11 families’ “15 minutes are up”. Deep Breath.....
So, if they weren’t read their Mirandas...do we then have to let them go?
When one of these muppets is caught a second time on the battlefield, having just killed an American soldier or two, Obama will have hell to pay.
Not only that, when they arrive on US soil, they get a whole bunch of legal rights that they don’t enjoy in Gitmo.
We’ll put them in the courts and some will probably be released into the public.
He haa moved to the number 2 spot, BO is now number one.
Well, Biden DID say we wouldn’t like what was going to happen in this country or what they would do in response — before the election. They likely knew their actions put the country in danger and if we are attacked allows them to declare marshall law and really control every aspect of our lives.
The victims of the massive terror attack are kicked again but now by 0bama.
0bozo wants to bring the IslamOfascists here to San Diego
to Camp Pendleton Marine Base or to Marimar Marine Air base
3 of our 5 congresmen in San Diego are Republicans and fighting this big time. Two are vets including one who has served several tours in Iraq and Afgh as a Marine Capt.
The people who voted for this poor excuse of a human
including the stay at home and third party voters need to know what they did.
Keep up the good work Tim!
Bump. TOTUS is in way over his head and way out of his league when it comes to the job of being President. This yahoo can’t buy a clue when it comes to the War on Terror.
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