Guantanamo Bay: Obama Announces Plan to Close Controversial Detention Facility

NBC ^ | Feb 23, 2016

[nuconvert]

President Barack Obama on Tuesday presented a long-awaited plan to Congress to shut down the controversial detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, insisting that keeping the prison open is "contrary to our values."

"It's been clear that the detention center at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security," Obama said from the Roosevelt Room at the White House. "It undermines our standing in the world."

The plan, which has been on Obama's agenda since he took office in 2009, hinges on the transfer of between 30 and 60 detainees to U.S. soil, and suggesting several possible locations in South Carolina, Kansas and Colorado. The rest of the 91 detainees at the prison would be sent to other countries.

There are currently 35 detainees eligible for transfer, and the plan

[hollyweed]

Articles of Impeachment should be drafted immediately. I don’t care if he only has 10 months left. Expedite the hearings.

[KC_Conspirator]

Imprisoning killers and terrorists is “contrary to our values”?

[b4its2late]

And don't forget the Muslim Brotherhood connections.

The Muslim Brotherhood Comes to the White House

[Syncro]

More violent terrorist killers to be released to kill and rape, building up Obama’s Islamic Terror army.

Obama will attempt and probably be successful in giving Gitmo to Cuba.

A big mistake.

[US_MilitaryRules]

General Pershing style!

[Syncro]

I posted the same thing only without a date before reading any replies.

You may very well be correct.

Help the brothers (Muslim Brotherhood also) sure, but more to undermine the ability of the USA to protect itself.

[353FMG]

Send them to the Land of Obama — either Hawaii or Kenya.

[A CA Guy]

He can try to give Alaska back to Russia, but he has no authority.

[Syncro]

What gives him the right to give away a part of the United States of America?

Nothing, this must be stopped.

[DoughtyOne]

Does Congress have a say in this?

This guy shouldn’t unilaterally be able to do this.

[cyclotic]

I suggest the most secure building in the world. The white house

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Does Congress have a say in this?

Mitch is sounding Mitch-tough at the moment.

But just give him a little time.

[rlmorel]

Well, it certainly is contrary to HIS values.

[Rummy2]

Wait until he travels to Cuba, that's when he announces his intention to return Guantanamo to Cuba.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

His home state balked under a D governor . . . how much more will they reject the idea under an R?

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, about 36 hours seems to be his breaking point.

I tried and I tried folks, but they were too formidable, in their minority numbers...

[GOPJ]

Obama wants to gift the Cuban thugs who run the hellhole...

[ataDude]

Oh, hell no.

[DoughtyOne]

[DoughtyOne]

Controversial to who?

To the Islamic terrorists and their sympathizers?

Well okay, but I’m not here to make their lives easier.

Leave it open, and let it remain highly controversial to them.

Screw the sympathizers...