Posted on 05/20/2009 2:18:03 PM PDT by Technical Editor
FBI chief undermines Obama on Guantanamo closure
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090520/pl_afp/ussenatejusticeguantanamopoliticscongressfbi
Wed May 20, 12:21 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – FBI chief Robert Mueller Wednesday undermined President Barack Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by warning that detainees could fuel terrorism if transferred to US soil.
"The concerns we have about individuals who may support terrorism being in the United States run from concerns about providing financing to terrorists, radicalizing others," Mueller told a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.
The threat of Guantanamo detainees "radicalizing" others would apply even if they were held in maximum-security prisons on the US mainland, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation indicated.
Obama wants to shutter the prison camp located at a US naval base on Cuba by early 2010. But his Democratic Senate allies Tuesday moved to deny the president 80 million dollars in funding for the proposal.
Obama is due to defend his approach in a speech Thursday.
But the Democrats joined Republicans who have warned for weeks that Obama lacks a plan for dealing with the facility's 240 detainees from 30 countries, and argued against imprisoning, trying or freeing any of them on US soil.
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I think this is one issue that would bring Americans into the street in protest. I'll be there if it happens.
No by gum the rats and Hussein were right and they need to each have a Gitmo terrorist at their homes at their earliest possible convenience (not holding my breath)
“The concerns we have about individuals who may support terrorism being in the United States run from concerns about providing financing to terrorists, radicalizing others,” Mueller told a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.”
You have to hold hearings to realize that? See tagline.
So the Dem Congress, the FBI and the Pentagon (see article directly above this one) are all providing cover to Obama to help him weasel out of his bad decision on closing Gitmo.
I have the feeling all of this is being coordinated from the White House.
Another damn speech by the teleprompter...this makes like 28 since he took office.. I am sickened every time I hear this person speak.. perhaps he will follow in his White Mothers foot steps, and leave us early...
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!
What’s unbelievable is that an American president would even consider having them come to the US in the first place.
I think you're right. Mueller was a complete nebbish as FBI director under Bush. He did absolutely nothing to help clean the corrupt clintonoids out of his organization. In fact, he gave them medals. I simply cannot imagine him standing up to Obama unless this is some kind of charade.
Thats exactly what the dems are doing......
The list, ping
He "fixes" everything with empty speeches.
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