Posted on 08/02/2009 4:02:59 AM PDT by tobyhill
The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.
Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
The officials outlined the plans — the latest effort to comply with President Barack Obama's order to close the prison camp by Jan. 22, 2010, and satisfy congressional and public fears about incarcerating terror suspects on American soil — on condition of anonymity because the options are under review.
White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said Friday that no decisions have been made about the proposal. But the White House considers the courtroom-prison complex as the best among a series of bad options, an administration official said.
For months, government lawyers and senior officials at the Pentagon, Justice Department and the White House have struggled with how to close the internationally reviled U.S. Navy prison at Guantanamo.
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BS. They don’t have the time. They are moving inmates around at ADX in Florence, CO in hopes of sending them there. I think they just need to add the funds to expand ADX and use it.
Better yet, do what Bush said and keep them in Gitmo.
It has to be tough to be a naive President.
As soon as they are moved here then they get more rights than they have now, including bond hearings.
ACLU will have many of them wondering our streets within a few months after they arrive.
Doubt it.
The ADX guys don’t have a lot of rights althogh the TOTUS has allowed the shoe bomber more access (strikes me as naive).
Military/Civilian Prison in U.S. Hummm, terrorists huh, interesting.
Obama I have a plan 2008:White House have struggled with how to close the internationally reviled U.S. Navy prison at Guantanamo.
The only plan Obama has is failure and it’s working.
Doubt it again.
The ADX inmates are largely already convicted.
When foreign terrorists start arriving on our soil and gaming the US judicial system, along with the complicity of liberal Federal judges and the full force and power of the ACLU and the MSM, - at your expense, of course - then they will have rights aplenty until conviction and the exhaustion of appeals.
And many of them will walk.
If you listen carefully, perhaps there is a whisper within our military of what they’re going to have to do to protect the constitution (their oath) against Obama.
Valid point. I stand corrected.
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