Posted on 02/24/2016 12:37:33 PM PST by Kaslin
Testifying in front of the House Appropriations Subcommittee Wednesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch reiterated that transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay Prison to the United States is against the law. From the Washington Times:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that federal law flatly prevents President Obama from sending of the the detainees from Guantanamo Bay to U.S. territory, hurting his ability to follow through on his new closure plan.
"That is the state of the law," she said, pointing to the most recent defense policy law passed late last year, which cleared Congress on a bipartisan vote and which Mr. Obama himself signed into law.
Lynch also pointed this out during testimony in November of last year.
"With respect to individuals being transferred to the United States, the law currently does not allow that," Lynch testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee. "Certainly it is the position of the Department of Justice that we would follow the law of the land in regard on that issue."
President Obama sent Congress a plan Monday to permanently close the prison, which includes illegally bringing dozens of high-level terrorists to prison facilities in the United States.
Speaker Paul Ryan immediately pushed back on the proposal, reminding President Obama about bipartisan legislation recently passed in the House and Senate banning detainees from being transferred. Today, Ryan threatened the White House with a lawsuit should President Obama proceed unilaterally.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says GOP preparing legal challenge keep Guantanamo Bay prison open. https://t.co/Iyh4PRXm5D pic.twitter.com/Wv5YzMLKX4— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) February 24, 2016
"If the President proceeds with knowingly breaking the law and asking the military to knowingly break the law he will be met with fierce bipartisan opposition here in Congress and we are taking all legal preparations necessary to meet that resistance," Ryan said during a press conference Wednesday.
There are also rumblings of states preparing lawsuits against the administration to prevent the transfer of detainees to their prisons.
I would think any such obvious act of malfeasance would be met by more than just opposition.
Said AG Lynch, “However, the president has a pen and a phone, so I do not see any legal problems with his plan”.
What was left out of the article....
Sure the point is to set all zeros muzzle terrorist buddies free.
Won’t slow this tyrant down for a second.
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He is going to hand Gitmo back to Cuba when he goes next month.
He will use his authority as CIC to order the military bug out. Prisoners will be left behind. The Cubans will then come in and do with them what they will.
Which could be to turn them all free, which will light a fire under Congress to let him bring the worst actors to Supermax.
You heard it here first.
But not necessarily other ones.
Would the dictator in chief fire her for obeying the law? I wouldn’t put it past him.
But she is frantically trying to find a way around that...
Why doesn’t dear leader simply go to Guantanamo and personally, murder the lot of them?
Putin would do it on pay per view.
Who would complain?
No guts, no glory.
That racist witch.
Did Obama ask for her resignation yet?
.... So what! ..... Barack ..... pen ...... phone .... blah blah blah .....
When has being against the law ever stopped Obama?
Which means they plan to do it.
So, the only recourse is to let them go......that is what Obama will do. Freedom and a pardon
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