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 ...
Plenty of them belong there.
Yes dear, he did say this. The original quote would be found in the Miami Herald.
“The Republican presidential nominee told the Miami Herald that he doesn’t “at all” like the idea of trying terrorist suspects in the civilian court system, even though US citizens are constitutionally entitled to due process. He added that he would be “fine” with trying US citizens in military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, the US naval base that is also home to a military prison housing captured terror suspects.”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/politics/donald-trump-military-courts-election-2016/index.html
The problem is that these people were falsely provided with US citizenship and they need to have it stripped before we end up with thousands of copycats.
We have done the equivalent of importing Nazi family members and ‘friends’ during WWII. And now we are reaping the consequences.
Thanks George Bushes & Obamadishu.
Oh my . . . . I see nothing but pure E V I L emanating from that photo.
I bind it in Jesus’ Name !!
Yep.
Start with cell #1 for Obama and cell 2 and 3 for the Clintons. More to follow such as current Sec. of state, traitor since Vietnam.
If it were Obama going for treason, I’d be happy - but I’m still not so sure he’s an America citizen...
Start with Andrea Mitchell.
I vote that the Clintons, Huma, Weiner, Emmanuel, Pelosi, Reid, Grahmnesty, McStain and Soros be the charter members.
As Hussein Obama's illegal actions are examined, it will likely be found that Hussein is NOT even an American citizen. As someone who has aided Muslim terrorists in many parts of the world, Hussein can easily be labeled a Muslim terrorist.
If Hussein Obama is convicted of treason, should he spend the rest of his life in Gitmo OR should we just hang him for treason?
Extensive testing to prove the SINGLE BULLET THEORY has shown that a military round can pass through several people and still have adequate killing power.
Are you saying that we should try to line up as many in series as practical to save ammunition OR should we use just one bullet for each Muslim terrorist?
I would think anyone can go. It's all in the presentation. Instead of calling the move punitive, call the move a lengthy Caribbean All Expenses Paid vacation, a reward for the work done.............
I would be ok with it if they were captured as enemy combatants... but they really should stand trial and be executed.
No US citizens should be in gitmo except as a guard.
I’m surprised Obama hasn’t already returned Gitmo to Raul Castro.
Every GI in Gitmo is a US citizen who has been sent there.
On a slight change of subject.
Isn’t every embassy compound considered part of our sovereign territory?
Why couldn’t we build prisons there?
It would make returning deportees much easier with diplomatic immunity and such until they’re pushed out the gate.
I don’t think he technically can.... but Obama “droned” US citizens overseas without a trial (even a minor without a valid warrant). So there’s that option now.
“Congratulations, Mr. Soros! You just won an all expenses paid, luxury 5-day cruise in the Mediterranean!!!! Act now!”
Yes, who really knows who is being chosen to be zapped abroad.
Like Seal Team Six, just more isolated cases.
Says the Miami Herald. Why am I skeptical???
What don’t you plug it in your search engine, it takes 5 seconds:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/donald-trump/article95144337.html
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