Posted on 05/11/2011 5:44:29 PM PDT by advance_copy
The Pentagon is considering allowing the families of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to visit them, an unprecedented step to ease the isolation of inmates who in some cases have been held at the U.S. facility for close to a decade, according to congressional aides.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which monitors conditions at the Guantanamo Bay military prison and facilitates videoconferences between detainees and their families, has been in serious discussions with the Pentagon about a visitation program, the aides said.
Some Republicans, after hearing about the talks, appeared to balk at such access to the naval station in Cuba. In an early version of the annual legislation to authorize the activities of the Defense Department, Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (Calif.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, inserted language that would ban family visits, which have never occurred at Guantanamo.
But the latest version of the bill states only that Defense Department funds appropriated for fiscal year 2012 may not be used “to permit any person who is a family member of an individual detained at Guantanamo to visit the individual.”
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And we will be paying for their travel. What a gutsy call.
Will they be allowed to bring their husbands/sons favorite sheep? ;-)
Now that's some silly sh!t right there.
Not only are we not kidding you — you’ll have to pay for the 1st class fare and the 5-star hotel accomodations for the family members.
What could possibly (unexpectedly) go wrong???
I can only imagine what will be passed back and forth between visitors and detainees...
My first thought!
Yes...it is only right. Also allow them conjugal visits so they can make more little time bombs.
This administration makes me sick, literally!
The Gitmo Hilton is up and running...complete with Muslim
diets and prayer rugs for each room.
SHEEEEEEEESH!
While we're at it, why not give them all cellphones and credit cards too?
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