Posted on 12/03/2016 8:13:34 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
If President-elect Donald Trump decides to make good on his campaign pledge to "load up" the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with new domestic terror suspects caught in the US -- including American citizens -- legal experts say he is asking for an unprecedented constitutional showdown.
Voters first received a peek at Trump's stance on Guantanamo Bay back in 2015 when talking points on various policy questions were leaked ahead of a Republican debate. On the issue of whether he would close the detention facility, the memo stated: "No. I would also take away the passports of Americans who fight for ISIS and send them to Gitmo for some R&R."
On the campaign trail in February he railed against President Barack Obama's promise to close the facility -- vowing to fill it up with additional detainees. "This morning, I watched President Obama talking about Gitmo, right, Guantanamo Bay, which by the way, which by the way, we are keeping open. Which we are keeping open ... and we're gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me, we're gonna load it up," Trump told the crowd.
Trump went a step further in August, telling The Miami Herald he would be "fine" trying US citizens suspected of terrorism in military commissions.
Who can go to Guantanamo?
As the President-elect makes the transition from campaigning to governing, the real question will soon become: who exactly is even eligible for transfer to Guantanamo?
Legal experts on both sides of the political aisle agree that Trump's options are limited in light of the congressional authority currently available to detain someone....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
it costs a fortune for each prisoner.
why are they being treated so well?
we could likely save tens or even hundreds of Millions by just using one bullet instead.
Alcatraz started out as a military prison during the Civil War. A perfect place for high security prisoners...
Great catch. The connection is to Valerie Jarrett, to bad she has offspring.
The rest of the article states it would be insurmountable to send terrorists caught on American soil to Gitmo.
If there is suspected terrorism, I’d be hard pressed to find a reason why not.
Technically they would still be on U.S. territory.
They would simply be in prison awaiting trial.
I would not support them being there indefinitely without representation and trial though. Why?
The Democrats will come back to power at some point, and their judgement is such that they would arrest Conservatives on any old excuse and never allow them representation or a trial.
We have to be careful of doing things that will blow back on us later on.
bacon flavor cat food and litter boxes.
no tv. nothing.
Start with George Soros!
Did Trump say he was going to? No. Anyone on his staff say that? No. This is CNN propaganda, trolling for people to react. Do not help them out.
Great idea. Where do we send our nominations?
“...the concept of sending an ISIS-inspired, lone wolf attacker caught on US soil -
— to Guantanamo would almost certainly trigger an immediate legal challenge, since SCOTUS has never had an opportunity to address such a scenario.”
“But the prospect of lengthy litigation could undermine Trump’s own goals by inviting greater judicial scrutiny of the detainee program as a whole — not to mention the fact that he could lose a court fight and the suspect would walk.”
Above from the article, it’s not as easy as it seems
if you are community organizer in Chicago who pays rioters to disrupt free speech events? You go to Guantanamo.
Cool Breeze!
During WWII, we permitted many Jews to come over....with restrictions.
They turned Fort Ontario into a community for them and they were supposed to return to their home country after the war.
And so....I propose we create a similar "refuge" for people immigrating from Muslim countries.
The base can have a special intelligence setup to aid us with discovery of these people....many who have no papers at all.
Trump speaks in generalities, in broad terms. I don’t think we know how he will execute his duties quite yet. It is like his saying that we will strip citizenship from those who burn the flag, or take away their freedom for a year in a prison. That cannot nor should it be done. He says it because he is reflecting the frustration of us with the American hating left and their rule of tyranny.
I have not found where he specifically mentioned American citizens are eligible. The problem is that so many enemies have been ‘gifted’ American citizenship. Here’s what Trump said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7dmMI3CtKI
Published on Feb 23, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that the US should keep Guantanamo Bay detention facility open in Cuba and ‘load it up’ with some ‘bad dudes.’
I dunno. Aren’t Marines American citizes? They get sent there all the time.
And I bet many of those from Ft. Ontario and their offspring became the hard core marxist leftists that we are fighting today.
Daughter of Valerie Jarrett? aka
‘The Real first woman president’
Val has been awfully quiet lately. I’m sure she has her future already mapped out. Hopefully, she leaves the continent.
Yes!
Next question?
I’d start with Wolf Blitzer and Rachel Maddow
Only the MSM would raise this question. Fake News
None of these factors applies to a case where a U.S. citizen is apprehended for acts of terrorism either here or abroad.
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