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Pentagon plan to close Guantanamo expected in coming week
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 7, 2015 8:34 AM EST | Lolita C. Baldor and Kathleen Hennessey

Posted on 11/12/2015 8:54:34 PM PST by Olog-hai

The Pentagon's plan outlining the long-stalled effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, expected in the coming week, includes details suggesting that the Centennial Correctional Facility in Colorado is one suitable site to send detainees whom officials believe should never be released, administration officials said.

The plan represents a last-gasp effort by the Obama administration to convince staunch opponents in Congress that dangerous detainees who can't be transferred safely to other countries should be housed in a U.S.-based prison. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fubo; guantanamo; guantanamobay; obama; pentagon; rop
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To: Olog-hai

Anyone want to bet that this is the reason that Ashton Carter’s military aide — a 3-star — got ‘fired’?


21 posted on 11/13/2015 3:15:22 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Vince Ferrer

That is correct. As soon as they touch US soil they gain locked-in constitutional rights which they do not enjoy in an off-shore prisons. Obama knows this. The media hides this fact, allowing fools to believe there is no difference.


22 posted on 11/13/2015 4:04:32 AM PST by shalom aleichem
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To: dfwgator

BINGO!! Obama can’t WAIT to give it to his new best friends, fellow Marxists, the Castro Brothers.


23 posted on 11/13/2015 4:05:43 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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