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.
Like laws matter to Obama.
I have a feeling Cuba will be deciding what to do with the Gitmo detainees.
The "Good Ones" are commanded to financially provide for the bad ones! It's their LAW!
Bingo
My first thought also
Like you, I’d croak if that ever happened.
The simple fact that something was illegal certainly hasn’t stopped him (or her, for that matter) thus far.
bump
“So, the only recourse is to let them go......that is what Obama will do. Freedom and a pardon”
Exactly...
In today’s America it makes news when the Attorney General says the Justice Department will enforce and follow the law.
If Loretta had prosecuted Lerner, she might have some credibility, but she has none.
Regardless of what Obozo will actually DO, it really makes him look (even more) stupid and out of touch when his own AG says something like this only a couple of days later. You’d have thought that even he would have had someone make a phone call, or order Lynch to the Oval Office, and find this out before he opened his pie hole.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Kas, you know that isn’t going to happen. Much as we’d like to see it, it just isn’t going to happen.
The collective testicular fortitude to bring impeachment hearings against “the first black president” is just not there.
he will simply release them OVERSEAS....
hey when do we get to witness the execution of
KSM
MAKE SURE ITS ON YOUTUBE.....
light him on fire and toss him off a 1/4 mile high cliff
HE CAN RELIVE WHAT THE WTC JUMPERS WENT THROUGH
We need to keep GITMO if only to serve as a home for Obama when he leaves the Red House. Then he can talk to Castro through the barbed wire fence during Sunday visits.
She’s hoping for that SC nomination.....
And that's not all....
We all know how he gets around that. He just decrees he's doing it anyway, Republicans huff and puff, and the agencies do his bidding.
No need to yell ... I completely agree.
:^)
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