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State and local officials opposed to President Obama’s plan to transfer terrorism detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the mainland U.S. will get a platform to air their concerns Thursday during a House hearing. Republican Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina is among the witnesses who will testify in opposition to the administration’s plan, at the session held by the Homeland Security’s oversight subcommittee. South Carolina is one of the states where the administration is considering transferring detainees, a plan that would need to be approved by a deeply skeptical Congress. Mr. Obama, whose campaign pledge to close the prison is...

Barack Obama during his Tuesday press conference said once again that he wants to close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay. NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno offered the President some advice Tuesday saying, "He should do what he always does: declare it a small business and tax it out of existence":

Several retired generals will join forces with war critics this week to support President Barack Obama’s commitment to transfer Guantanamo Bay terror suspects to the U.S. for trial. The generals, who will remain anonymous until the campaign is formally announced Tuesday, are joining forces with VoteVets’ Jon Soltz and former Rep. Tom Andrews (D-Maine) to urge Congress to shutter the Guantanamo prison. Andrews is the director of National Campaign to Close Guantanamo.

Closing Gitmo is proving harder than President Obama thought -- but that's no reason to simply set terrorists free. Yet the Obama folks seem set to do just that, based on their decision this week to release 75 of the 223 remaining detainees -- on top of the three freed last weekend. Sure, Obama's vows to shut the Guantanamo Bay camp are giving him agita. His left-wing base is restless; it turns out his friends abroad aren't so keen on hosting "Welcome Home!" parties for freed terrorists, after all -- and his defense secretary says the president's January deadline for...