Posted on 11/28/2020 4:34:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center went to his latest review board hearing with a degree of hope, something that has been scarce during his 16 years locked up without charges at the U.S. base in Cuba.
Saifullah Paracha, a 73-year-old Pakistani with diabetes and a heart condition, had two things going for him that he didn’t have at previous hearings: a favorable legal development and the election of Joe Biden.
President Donald Trump had effectively ended the Obama administration’s practice of reviewing the cases of men held at Guantanamo and releasing them if imprisonment was no longer deemed necessary. Now there’s hope that will resume under Biden.
“I am more hopeful now simply because we have an administration to look forward to that isn’t dead set on ignoring the existing review process,” Paracha’s attorney, Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, said by phone from the base on Nov. 19 after the hearing. “The simple existence of that on the horizon I think is hope for all of us.”
Guantanamo was once a source of global outrage and a symbol of U.S. excess in response to terrorism. But it largely faded from the headlines after President Barack Obama failed to close it, even as 40 men continue to be detained there.
Those pushing for its closure now see a window of opportunity, hoping Biden’s administration will find a way to prosecute those who can be prosecuted and release the rest, extricating the U.S. from a detention center that costs more than $445 million per year.
Biden’s precise intentions for Guantanamo remain unclear. Transition spokesman Ned Price said the president-elect supports closing it, but it would be inappropriate to discuss his plans in detail before he’s in office.
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Until the electoral college says so, he didn’t win
If it can be proven Biden and his cronies cooperate with foreign enemies to attempt to steal a federal election, they’ll be filling up the prison. That’ll keep it open.
Virtually every idea abs plan or action from the Biden team is terrible. No way they should be allowed to steal the presidency.
Biden — the ultimate embodiment of the complete democrat man: corrupt, stupid and mean. No wonder they selected him to run.
He deserves 0 electoral votes. Joe Biden is a BAD DUDE.
That just made my heart stop beating.
Dearest Asshole Press, Biden may have won in your dreams (and in America’s nightmare), but until the Electorial College says otherwise, here’s a NOBODY!
Bidens win, what a bunch of crap
Dear AP: Biden has not won.
Didn’t obama send a bunch of the Guantanamo terrorists to Illinois?
“President Donald Trump had effectively ended the Obama administration’s practice of reviewing the cases of men held at Guantanamo and releasing them if imprisonment was no longer deemed necessary. Now there’s hope that will resume under Biden.”
Where have I heard ‘HOPE’ before...
Some Guantanamo detainees to be moved to Illinois
December 15, 2009 6:12 p.m. EST
Washington (CNN) — Some terrorism suspects held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be moved to an Illinois prison that the federal government will buy to hold them, the Obama administration announced Tuesday.
Fewer than 100 Guantanamo detainees would come to the maximum-security Thomas Correctional Center, 150 miles west of Chicago, said Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois. Republican Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois put the figure at 70.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/15/gitmo.illinois/index.html
I believe, though that Obama’s plan never materialized.
I agree with your comment, but I believe an additional reason he was selected was due to his poor mental and physical health enabling Harris to be president, probably within the first year of a stolen election.
If anyone fits the description of corrupt, stupid and mean, it’s Harris.
“Biden’s precise intentions for Guantanamo remain unclear.”
It’s so funny now that every utterance from Biden’s pie-hole appears to be a future decision that’s God-awful for America.
Funny, I don’t recall all of these actions being promoted during the election that he didn’t win.
EXCEPT, Biden LOST! Biden IS lost.
Biden, the “devout Catholic” doesn’t recognize the word “psalmist” on his teleprompter and said Pa-somists. Even though he then quotes from the Pa-som.
Lucky for him, God was busy and didn’t hear him. /s
“Ah, don’t book your flight on Air Jihad just yet Abdul.”
The ICE Detainees at the Facility where my SIL works are just giddy that Quid Pro Joementia Biden (possibly) won the Election.
They can’t wait to be set free in our Country even though they violated the rules when they committed Crimes while being given a Green Card by our generous Federal Government.
It’s starting to look like it’s why the democrats and media want Trump the cede asap.
A lot of things are in the works the media don’t want the public to notice.
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