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President Obama will gather tomorrow with victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and U.S.S. Cole bombing for a face-to-face meeting as his administration struggles to decide how to handle detainees at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, several of those invited said. The previously undisclosed meeting at the White House tomorrow afternoon will give the new president a chance to explain his decision to close the controversial prison facility where the U.S. has placed many suspected terrorists since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Obama has been assailed by conservative critics who say the decision to close the facility within a year...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement after he joined U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) and others in sponsoring the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility Safe Closure Act. The bill would prohibit the use of any federal funds to transfer detainees currently being held prisoner at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to any facility in the United States. In addition, the bill would prohibit any funds to modify or construct any facility in the United States to house enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay. “Guantanamo Bay is home to the most hardened and...

Saudi Arabia said Wednesday that 11 men released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay are now on the kingdom's most-wanted list despite having attended its touted extremist rehabilitation program. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order closing the detention center at the naval base in Cuba, leaving countries scrambling over what to do with released detainees. Saudi Arabia and terror experts defended the program for terror suspects, saying it is largely effective. The Pentagon has said it's unlikely to change its policy on prisoner transfers to the kingdom. Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden...

Writer Jerome Corsi is reporting on WorldNetDaily that former, disgraced federal judge, now Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.), an Obama apparatchik, has introduced a new bill calling for the government to establish six concentration camps for “corralling civilians on military installations.” The bill, HR 645, creates camps that are similar to the concentration camps used to house political dissidents in Nazi Germany. According to the proposed bill, the purpose of the National Emergency Centers is “to provide temporary housing as well as medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster. The broad...

Many Guantanamo Bay detainees cleared of terrorist charges and slated for release have expressed a desire to live in Canada, and refugee organizations are calling for sponsors. The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR), a non-profit umbrella group representing several non-governmental organizations and churches, is leading the plea, which goes out to groups and private individuals alike. The ability for citizens to sponsor refugees is unique to Canada, according to CCR executive director Janet Dench, noting refugees to every other country must be government-sponsored. With U.S. President Barack Obama signing an executive order on Jan. 22 to close the prison at...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Republican state legislators are working on a resolution they hope could keep Guantanamo Bay inmates from being moved to the federal prison in Terre Haute. "It's unfair simply because we house a federal prison that we might be looked at as a place to harbor these terrorists," Rep. Bill Davis, R-Portland, said Tuesday. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba within a year, and lawmakers from several states are urging the president to keep detainees out of their back yards. A task force is working on recommendations on...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2009 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has selected a Navy four-star admiral to lead an assessment of operations at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Defense Department official said here today. Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, the vice chief of Naval Operations, will head the review, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters. The White House has tasked the Pentagon to assess the detention operations at Guantanamo Bay as part of President Barack Obama’s decision to close the facility, Morrell said. Obama issued an executive order Jan. 22 that directs the closure of...

When I heard about the possibility that the terrorist detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Gitmo) will move to Alcatraz Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, I got excited. Ideas from economic stimuli to renewed patriotism started flooding my mind. Here are the top 10 reasons I believe Gitmo should be moved to Alcatraz: 10. D-Block. Not the hip-hop group, but the row of solitary confinement cells at Alcatraz. Need I say more? (Of course, "Gitmo and the Golden Gates" might make a hit rap song, too.) 9. It is rumored that "Dirty Harry" (Clint Eastwood's...

H/T to Little Green Footballs) President Obama recently made a remarkable and very dangerous proclamation about GITMO. President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Monday he worried that detainees freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, might resume attacks on the United States.But he told NBC News that closure of the prison was a matter of upholding U.S. values and law, and that a failure to do so would ultimately make Americans less secure. "Can we guarantee that they're not going to try to participate in another attack? No," Obama said. "But what I can guarantee...

Under no circumstances does state Rep. Dan Moul want Pennsylvania considered as a potential site for the relocation of suspected terrorists now being housed at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. And in a defiant move against President Barack Obama's plan to close the Cuba-based prison and relocate the facility somewhere within the U.S., the Adams County representative has drafted a resolution he hopes will stop Pennsylvania from being on the short list of potential sites. "These people are trained killers, and they're trained to kill Americans. That's what they were born, bred and raised to do is to kill us,...

Poll: Americans Oppose Obama's First Two Executive Orders President Obama's first two executive orders -- allowing federal funding for overseas abortions and closing Guantanamo -- have been met with widespread opposition, according to a poll released Tuesday. FOXNews.com Tuesday, February 03, 2009 Though President Obama has garnered widespread support for his early actions in office, Americans strongly oppose the commander-in-chief's first two executive orders -- allowing federal funding for overseas abortions and closing Guantanamo -- according to a poll released Tuesday. Fifty-eight of Americans said they disagreed with the president's decision to give overseas funding to family planning organizations that...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Monday he worried that detainees freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, might resume attacks on the United States. "Can we guarantee that they're not going to try to participate in another attack? No," Obama said. "But what I can guarantee is that if we don't uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time that will make us less safe. And that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like al-Qaeda."

President Obama said he is worried that detainees freed from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay might resume attacks on this country - but argued that its closure had to be done in order to "uphold" what he called "our values."

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama says his decision to close the Guantanamo prison "will make us safer" and ensure that the government is upholding legal guarantees under the U.S. justice system.....

As many ponder the fate of 245 detainees at the soon-to-be-shuttered prison at Guantanamo Bay, the York County commissioners are open to the idea of holding some at the York County Prison, a facility that already holds about 700 federal detainees each day. (snip) York County's Republican congressman, Todd Platts, has spoken out against the relocation of the Guantanamo Bay detainees to Pennsylvania. But the county's history of holding federal detainees goes back years,and the partnership has yielded benefits for both sides. The federal government has turned the prison into one of the larger immigration detention centers in the country,...

GUANTÁNAMO We’re Not in Kansas By Dan Ephron | NEWSWEEK Published Jan 31, 2009 She's a Democrat and an Obama pal, so that might explain why Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was slow to join the fight. But last week, the governor added her name to the list of politicians angling to make sure Guantánamo detainees are not relocated to their states when the Obama administration shutters the detention center. Topping the list of possible new homes for Gitmo prisoners: Fort Leavenworth, located in Sebelius's state. "I'm happy to find a solution, but I would make a strong argument that this...

My brother was killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11. I have been waiting for justice ever since. Last month, I went to Guantanamo Bay to try to find it. What I witnessed was shocking. I saw a place where prisoners toy with the authorities, read the newspaper and get one hour breaks for prayer. I saw a place where detainees are treated far better than many ordinary American criminal defendants - and, as far as I'm concerned, far better than they deserve. I looked straight into the eyes of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man who masterminded the attacks...

"Rename, then abort terrorists" Whether you call it liberalism or progressivism, it still remains a twisted world view where up is down, good is bad, guilt is innocence, and sinner is saint. Case and point: our fresh ingenue president, Barack Hussein Obama, has stated his desire to heal the nation's discourse and to obliterate America's red state/blue state divisions. Yet, Obama's first acts as president include opening the floodgates of taxpayer dollars to fund international abortions and coddling murderous terrorists. So, according to Obama's worldview, innocent unborn babies are not entitled to any due process or rights whatsoever. Yet, the...

I told you. I damned well told you. Rendition is back, you pro-torturing, posturing, hypocritical Leftist fools: -snip- When I say "back" I mean that it’s going to become the damned default option for detainees. You howled when we tried to go with an unlawful detainee designation to handle these cases; you shrieked when we set up Gitmo; and you’d whine if we shot them out of hand. The only thing left is to hand these sons of b!tches over to countries without our Bill of Rights and hope that this is enough. There’s a big hole in the ground...

Well it wasn’t the shock to end all shocks…. Perhaps the most repeated promises of his Presidential Campaign, the newly sworn in Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama, would move quick to make good on it. The doors of the Guantanamo Bay prison would be closing, shutting for good, the first major policy break from the Administration of George W. Bush put into play. It was a move that, by the best of arguments, was aimed at restoring American moral authority, both at home and abroad. After all, questionable interrogation techniques had been used there, one that, by the accusations of some, violated...