Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee are seeking to bar the Trump administration from detaining any new terror suspects at the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The committee’s annual policy bill, according to a copy obtained by Defense One, prohibits the use of funds to detain additional individuals “including United States citizens” and “would prohibit detention of additional individuals under the law of war or pursuant to a military commission proceeding.” It also requires the administration to come up with a plan “identifying a disposition other than continued law of war detention” at Gitmo for each of the 40 detainees currently held there.
Democrats have long sought the closure of the controversial detention facility, created to hold al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks under the George W. Bush administration. President Barack Obama sought to shutter it, but was stymied by a Republican Congress, which placed a prohibition on transferring any of the detainees onto U.S. soil.
The legal basis for sending ISIS fighters to the prison remains an open question. While administration officials insist the option is still open, they privately admit that there’s a reason the Trump administration hasn’t tried it yet.
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7 comments:
Yeah, keep them in Nancy's basement instead.
We still don't want them on U.S. soil, where they'd be magnets for more of their kind in the surrounding areas. Look to the example of the situation that became an ugly reality when ECI came to the Shore and the prisoners were followed by family and crime associates to the Eastern Shore, where, before ECI, there were no gangs and scarcely ever a murder.
Gitmo is staying open for Future DEMOCRATS.
Anything that is good for the Country is not good for the progressives
DemocRATs are the new Domestic Terrorists.
this is so funny...GITMO has been expanded and remodeled to handle the Deep State Traitors about to be sent there...
Send the Damn Demon-crats to Gitmo !!!! Good place for them ALL !!!!!
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