Forget Torture—Obama Can't Let the Guantanamo Detainees Loose in the U.S.

US News ^ | 4/30/09 | Peter Roff

[Claytonbridge]

Put them in DEA uniforms and take them to one of the fun towns across the borders ;-) Problem solved!

[freekitty]

I am amazed that Obama is considering doing this.

[Veto!]

Hmmmmm. Apparently closing Gitmo is not about torture or legal precedents, it’s Ibn al’0bama’s way of releasing dangerous al Qaida members into the mainland USA.

I’m not kidding.

[Eroteme]

You just have to laugh at the logic. The detainees are deemed "not a security threat" for purposes of releasing them, but not for purposes of living near them.

Holder's global begging tour is an embarrassment. For an administration that constantly decries the "arrogance" of America pre-Messiah, running around lecturing other nations on their obligation to take in detainees that we won't is arrogance squared.

[repubpub]

How about we have TV camera’s follow them around. It could be another reality TV show.

[muawiyah]

The odds are good that Eric Holder and Obama intend to get the nastiest of them released inside the US so that they can be used as a “hit team” to punish political enemies.

[Night Hides Not]

Unfortunately, the average American Democrat has little capacity to think any problem beyond, "stroke of the pen, law of the land...cool"

It doesn't matter which high-security prison is tasked to house these killers. The local community will inevitably be put in the crosshairs of any of a number of sleeper cells throughout the US.

Just think of the target rich environment that will be available to the terrorists: schools, hospitals, shopping centers.

For example, La Tuna federal prison is a few miles from El Paso, a city of over 700,000 people, and Las Cruces is about 20 miles up the road, with at least 100,000 people. There are hundreds of schools, dozens of shopping centers, etc.

It's no wonder the Germans said to Holder: Ficken Sie auf, Herr Holder.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

US News has been very good lately, I wonder if they see the light now?

[Dustoff45]

Give this operation to the CIA

They can fix it!

1. Obtain an old airliner with enough for one more good flight.

2. Find a crew, without family ties so they can disappear forever.

3. Strap the GITMO Guys in for their one-way trip to CONUS.

4. En route, while over a deep portion of the ocean, suffer an in-flight catastrophe.

5. Crew covertly exits the aircraft via parachutes and is rescued by Zodiacs.

6. Plane crashes and slips into the deep blue.

7. USA announces GITMO flight disappears over ocean. Recovery not expected

8. Volunteer crew gets new IDs, retirement annuity accounts and disappears to a remote part of the globe, never to be seen again.

Tell me something like this has never been thought of before.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Put them all on an airplane traveling from California to Australia. With any luck, the plane will get zapped & make a forced landing on the “Lost” island. Ben, Kate, John, and Sawyer will keep them in line.

Okay, so that's mixing “reality” with “fantasy”. In what way is that different from what the Obama administration is considering?

[Spunky]

"What the GOP and any security-minded Democrats should really do is insist, and get it written into law, that the U.S. Department of Justice or the FBI needs to keep an eye on the detainees once they are released and submit to Congress once per quarter—perhaps to the members of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees—a report on their activities for a fixed period, say five years. Treat the detainees like they are on parole. And, if any of them are rearrested or caught engaging in acts of terror against the United States or its interests, that their names—and the fact that they were once held as suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay—be made a matter of public record."that under NO circumstances will any terrorist EVER be released into the United States.

[Venturer]

They could soon be working at the Liquor store-gas station down the road from me.

[Dustoff45]

Take the GITMO Guys to the gate with Cuba and kick them over the fence into Castro’s back yard.

[Finatic]

I have been thinking this same thought for months now.

[TigersEye]

Tell me something like this has never been thought of before.

You could ask Ron Brown about that.

[luvbach1]

And on a fast track to citizenship I presume?

[SaraJohnson]

Obama can’t do what to the American people? Oh, yes he can.

[freespirited]

The odds are good that Eric Holder and Obama intend to get the nastiest of them released inside the US so that they can be used as a “hit team” to punish political enemies.

Are you anywhere near the Uigher's hood in NOVA? Last I heard that was where they planned to release them.

[Waco]

They will only go to states that did NOT go for 0’b. Clear?