Posted on 08/15/2016 5:20:41 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Obama administration on Monday transferred 15 detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates, the largest release under the current president, the Pentagon said.
The transfer comes as the president faces a looming deadline to keep the promise he made on his first day in office to close the military prison. The detainee population there dipped under 100 for the first time in years in January with the release of 10 Yemeni prisoners, and will shrink to 61 with the latest transfer, underscoring a late effort to move toward closure.
“The United States is grateful to the Government of the United Arab Emirates for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “The United States coordinated with the Government of the United Arab Emirates to ensure these transfers took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures.”
The move was immediately condemned by Ed Royce (R.-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He accused the Obama administration in a statement of “doubling down on policies that put American lives at risk” and “recklessness.”
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Trump NEEDS to KEEP DRIVING THIS CRAP HOME!!!!
They had to promise to take six months of R&R before resuming jihad, so that Obama will be out of office, and beyond all accountability.
It also gives some time for all of the under the counter payments to clear.
Did they use their highly effective vetting process on these guys?
“Just clearing them out before January.”
He may want them out before November, to make sure that they all get to cast votes.
I’m sure they do, and that process is absolutely nothing.
Americans will die. Who will be held responsible. The media will cover it up.
Plenty of room now for the entire Obama administration.
Yeah, yeah that would work too.
Forget imprisonment - the entire Oscumhole administration should be burned alive. After a fair and very public trial.
He is good king Obama. He does what he wants and no one will stop him. Congress? How many divisions does congress have?
One of the biggest terrorists was represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a legal creation of the old cited Communist Party USA legal “bulwark”, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). A couple of its founders wee William Kunstler (a top CPUSA supporter, deceased), Arthur Kinoy, a key CPUSA legal operative, and Morton Stavis, CPUSA member.
All were in the Party dominated law firm of Kunster, Kunstler, Kinoy, (Hirschkoff), Stavis and Weiss (Peter, husband of Hanoi operative Cora Weiss).
The CCR is the most dangerous Marxist legal organization in the world.
Obumbler IS going to make good on his promise to the wacked out liberal muzzie loving left, to shutter Gitmo.
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