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White House plans more transfers from Guantanamo prison
LA Times ^ | 06/11/2014 | CHRISTI PARSONS, MICHAEL A. MEMOLI

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bergdahltruthfile; gitmo; guantanamo; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; waronterror
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1 posted on 06/11/2014 9:52:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He can do whatever he chooses.


2 posted on 06/11/2014 9:53:22 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We give south of the border Obama and they take back all the illegals maybe as well?


3 posted on 06/11/2014 9:53:52 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SeekAndFind

To where? Iran? Afghanistan? North Korea? Cuba main?..............


4 posted on 06/11/2014 9:55:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: SeekAndFind

Does this mean he has consulted Congress this time? Of it this his way of “notifying” them?


5 posted on 06/11/2014 9:55:07 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: SeekAndFind

Seem reasonable.

al Qaeda has taken several new countries
and needs Generals.


6 posted on 06/11/2014 9:56:28 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: SeekAndFind

When they say “transfered” they really mean “released”.


7 posted on 06/11/2014 9:56:40 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: kevslisababy
After serious negotiations we are getting Magic Beans in return.
8 posted on 06/11/2014 9:57:22 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: SeekAndFind

A newspaper account of this will appear every day, inuring the public to what will occur and no one will notice when it does and we lose a little more of America.


9 posted on 06/11/2014 9:57:34 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

One more transfer and if the House does not start impeachment America will come unglued.


10 posted on 06/11/2014 9:59:49 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: The_Media_never_lie

RE: He can do whatever he chooses.

The question is: Why does America let him?


11 posted on 06/11/2014 10:00:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Logical me
One more transfer and if the House does not start impeachment America will come unglued.

No it won't.

12 posted on 06/11/2014 10:01:38 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sh*t, as a hat-trick, he oughta sign an Executive Order repealing the Second and First Amendments.

Why not.

Then he can sign an Executive Order banning all private property and making capitalism illegal.

Let’s get this f****g civil war started. Now.


13 posted on 06/11/2014 10:03:05 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only requirement for a detainee to be released is their word that they will indeed try to kill Americans in the future.


14 posted on 06/11/2014 10:04:50 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: SeekAndFind

Hell, if I’m Obama and I hate America, I pardon the Gitmo detainees, and using military enforcement, make them all State Governers, Agency Directors, and Czars.


15 posted on 06/11/2014 10:04:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We are nationally insane. We will stay insane and crash eventually, or regain sanity and solve our problems. Status quo is not an option.


16 posted on 06/11/2014 10:07:06 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“The question is: Why does America let him?”

He is God to half of American voters and 99% of ABCCBSCNNNBCFOX/AP, and NEVER lies, only “generalizes”.

Ask any serious Hussein Head and they might be a little “disappointed” at “some” of his decisions, but they generally love and trust him and hate anyone who dares to criticize his omnipotence, especially Fox News, which they never watch because it’s “right wing”.


17 posted on 06/11/2014 10:09:54 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: SeekAndFind

What the hell does he care? By the time the next attack occurs on our soil from these bastards, he’ll be long gone.


18 posted on 06/11/2014 10:15:35 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: treetopsandroofs

RE: He is God to half of American voters and 99% of ABCCBSCNNNBCFOX/AP, and NEVER lies, only “generalizes”.

ACTOR JAIMIE FOXX ON WINNING AN AWARD: “Give all thanks to God and Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama”

See here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lyGv8UZgM


19 posted on 06/11/2014 10:20:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind; GeronL; Nachum

When the Taliban reported that they had Bergdahl, their first request was for 15 Gitmo prisoners and I think it was $5 million.

I guess Obama is giving them their demands (5 years later) on the installment plan.


20 posted on 06/11/2014 10:21:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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