Posted on 06/11/2014 9:52:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The White House is making plans to transfer more detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay despite the mounting political furor over the exchange of five Taliban prisoners for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, officials said Tuesday.
Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said the White House was "making progress on a number of additional promising opportunities" to transfer more prisoners and that officials were reviewing Yemeni detainees "on a case-by-case basis."
"While we do not generally discuss transfers before they take place, we are fully committed to implementing the president's direction that we transfer detainees to the greatest extent possible, consistent with national security and our humane-treatment policy, as we work toward closing the facility at Guantanamo Bay," she said.
Hayden said 17 inmates had been moved out of Guantanamo in the last 13 months, including the five former Taliban officials transferred to Qatar in the swap for Bergdahl.
The future of America's most notorious prison camp, and its 149 remaining inmates, has been in doubt since the White House announced the exchange May 31.
But President Obama, who has sought unsuccessfully to shut the U.S. military prison in Cuba since he took office, hinted strongly last week that he still intended to move more detainees out as the Pentagon winds down its war in Afghanistan.
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The only GOOD thing to happen was when Egypt told Hillary and her Muslim Brotherhood to GO SCREW THEMSELVES and reverse all the damage to their country caused by the United States' support of the MB.. Other than that, NOTHING good has come from Obamadullah and his criminal enterprise in the WH.
Nothing has happened to him for openly disobeying the law with respect to the Bergdahl Five. Nothing will happen to him for the rest.
Obama is aiding and abetting his brother Taliban before the Repubs get control of Congress in November. THAT is what happened here.. Obamadullah is helping his Islamic brothers all that he can before the road blocks appear after November. The pen and the phone will do MUCH damage between now and the changeover in the Senate.
He is obviously doing a favor for his true bosom buddies. I wonder what they will do to return the favor.
SHAME ON ALL OF OUR CONGRESS CRITTERS. Obama releasing terrorists back to the fight WHILE WE STILL HAVE TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN is a criminal act of ‘AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMY IN TIME OF WAR’. NO ONE CAN SPIN THIS OTHERWISE.
Thanks, that was the first and last time I will watch Jamie Foxx.
I checked IMDB and he’s not in anything I’m likely to see.
Yep. nobody has the guts to hold him accountable. He acts as a dictator/king.
“AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMY IN TIME OF WAR. NO ONE CAN SPIN THIS OTHERWISE.”
Sadly, most on TV and in Congress are working overtime to do just that.
That’s because we the people let him , It’s called apathy.
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