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Pentagon halts plan to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to Gitmo detainees, amid backlash
Fox News ^ | 10 mins ago Jan 30, 2021 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 01/30/2021 12:08:11 PM PST by conservative98

The Pentagon on Saturday announced that it was "pausing" a plan to give COVID-19 vaccinations at Guantanamo Bay -- after accusations from Republicans and 9/11 survivors that it was prioritizing terror suspects over Americans.

"No Guantanamo detainees have been vaccinated," Defense Department Press Secretary John Kirby tweeted. "We’re pausing the plan to move forward, as we review force protection protocols. We remain committed to our obligations to keep our troops safe."

Two defense officials had confirmed to Fox News the plan to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to the 40 detainees at the detention site near Cuba. A lack of vaccinations had reportedly made it difficult for federal prosecutors to move forward with war crimes hearings at the base.

The order was signed on Jan. 27 by Terry Adirim, the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs who was sworn in as a Biden appointee on Inauguration Day, a Pentagon spokesman told the New York Post.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; coronavirus; covid19; fauci; terryadirim; vaccine
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1 posted on 01/30/2021 12:08:11 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Those poor Muzzies. Biden is SO heartless.

ML/NJ


2 posted on 01/30/2021 12:11:10 PM PST by ml/nj (DITCH MITCH !)
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To: GOPJ

.......backtracking is stupid, reinforces the facts......

........Dems will be blasted on this til kingdom come.....


3 posted on 01/30/2021 12:17:41 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: conservative98

The only bad news is the resulting lawsuits that will yield multi $$$Million payouts to lawyers and terrorists.


4 posted on 01/30/2021 12:18:33 PM PST by utax
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To: conservative98

They will give it to them anyway, this is just a smokescreen.


5 posted on 01/30/2021 12:19:58 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: conservative98

20 years later and they’re still holding “hearings”? Sheesh.


6 posted on 01/30/2021 12:24:29 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated )
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To: conservative98
Pentagon halts plan to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to Gitmo detainees, amid backlash

China Joe Xiden throws Pentagon under the bus.

Joint Chiefs of Staff now Titled "Joint Chiefs of Fall Guys"

7 posted on 01/30/2021 12:30:11 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: conservative98

they’ve been nowhere to GET it ... so they don’t need it


8 posted on 01/30/2021 12:30:19 PM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: conservative98

GOOD. Give them a box of tissues for their COVID.
Better yet, do what they do to Covid contaminated mink.


9 posted on 01/30/2021 12:31:42 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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bidet appointee “Terry Adirim” needs to be strung up by his balls - if he has any.


10 posted on 01/30/2021 12:32:23 PM PST by FLNittany
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To: slouper

‘Pausing’.......


11 posted on 01/30/2021 12:36:13 PM PST by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: conservative98

About 50 years of political experience, and the Hairsniffer-in-Chief does this. So many “mistakes” in the first days.


12 posted on 01/30/2021 12:42:19 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: A Navy Vet

Yes, that’s one of the craziest parts of this.

KSM’s trial has been pushed back so many times it’s absurd. Most recent plan was a start date of mid-January but obviously that didn’t happen.


13 posted on 01/30/2021 12:43:18 PM PST by Stravinsky
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To: Liz

>>........Dems will be blasted on this til kingdom come.....

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By whom? The msm? I think not.


14 posted on 01/30/2021 12:43:20 PM PST by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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To: freedumb2003

They don’t care.
They don’t have to now.


15 posted on 01/30/2021 12:48:53 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: A Navy Vet

“20 years later and they’re still holding “hearings”? Sheesh.”

Right, these people should have been tried, convicted, executed, wrapped in pig skin and buried years ago.


16 posted on 01/30/2021 12:50:27 PM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: Stravinsky

I thought military tribunals were fast and efficient. What type of justice system are they using down there in Gitmo? Is it the terrorist loving lawyers stalling with motion after motion or maybe outside influence by the UN? What?


17 posted on 01/30/2021 12:52:04 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated )
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To: conservative98

Liberal ideas: silencing conservatives, protecting actual terrorists.


18 posted on 01/30/2021 12:52:11 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: conservative98

“”Defense Department Press Secretary John Kirby””

He’s back???? Good grief!


19 posted on 01/30/2021 1:00:32 PM PST by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: freedumb2003

Front page of the ny post


20 posted on 01/30/2021 1:01:27 PM PST by italianquaker
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