Posted on 06/24/2007 3:57:27 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Washington D.C. - House Armed Services Committee Ranking Republican Duncan Hunter (R-CA) today sent a letter to President Bush urging him to continue detaining dangerous terrorists at the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"It is my view that Guantanamo serves an essential national security function. The military has reviewed the situation of every detainee at Guantanamo, and determined that, if released, they would continue to pose a threat of rejoining al-Qaeda or the Taliban. The danger that these detainees pose is indisputable. The intelligence community has confirmed that a sizeable number of detainees released from Guantanamo rejoined hostilities in Afghanistan and were either killed or captured on the battlefield," wrote Hunter.
"As a result, detainee operations at Guantanamo must continue. The United States Government has a duty to the American people not to release those who would return to the fight and pose a threat to Americans or our coalition partners. Moreover, there is no practical alternative to Guantanamo," continued Hunter.
In the letter, Hunter argued that moving detainees to facilities in the United States is both "misguided" and "dangerous." Specifically, he highlighted the danger of importing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks on America, into American communities.
"Importing terrorists, like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, into American communities will have severe implications on our national security: it will undermine our current detention operations by parceling out the detainees to different facilities across the country, as no single facility can currently house all the Guantanamo detainees; it will create an opportunity for these dangerous enemies to recruit and disseminate their terrorist skills; it will increase the threat of an attempted escape and endanger American civilians if there were such an escape; it will make these domestic detention facilities prime targets for any terrorist attack that al-Qaeda is able to mount within our borders; and it will have severe implications on our detainee policy because it will introduce uncertainties about the unlawful enemy combatants' constitutional rights," stated Hunter.
Hunter concluded by addressing the impact the transfer of Guantanamo detainees into the United States would have on America's broader detainee policy, which was enhanced last year in the Military Commissions Act.
"Once these detainees are brought onto U.S. soil, the detainees may acquire minimal rights under the Constitution, in particular, the right to habeas corpus. This change in status will inevitably spawn a completely new round of litigation. While I believe the Combatant Status Review Tribunals that all detainees at Guantanamo receive satisfy those rights, it would take years of further litigation to finally reach that result. Thus, the military commission process would be stalled for the foreseeable future, and none of the detainees at Guantanamo would be brought to justice.
"Some would like this result; they would prefer to see terrorists tried under our federal criminal justice system. This is a false choice. We cannot try terrorists for war crimes if it requires our soldiers to read terrorists Miranda rights or take a battalion of lawyers onto the battlefield. Military commissions are crucial because they are crafted for the conduct of war by providing procedures flexible enough to account for the constraints and conditions of the battlefield."
Hunter ping!
There’s really no good reason to detain thim within our borders other than the fact that the rest of the world doesn’t like it. Tough noogies for them.
“Hunter gets it.”
He most certainly does!
Actually, I don’t think we should detain them either. I’m all for tossing them into the sea for shark bait.
Just also make sure that it’s videotaped and shown worldwide on the Internet.
Starting with Hillary.
Thanx!!
He always has. And his record on Guantanamo is the same as everything, steady and consistent. This is the man we need to win the WOT. President Hunter is how it should be.
I think we need to send the detainees off to somewhere where the courts don’t know they exist.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. ,20016
Dear Concerned Citizen:
Thank you for your recent letter roundly criticizing our treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Our administration takes these matters seriously, and your opinion was heard loud and clear here in Washington. You’ll be pleased to learn that, thanks to the concerns of citizens like you, we are creating a new division of the Terrorist Retraining Program, to be called the “Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers” program, or LARK for short.
In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to place one terrorist under your personal care.
Your personal detainee has been selected and scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence next Monday. Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of admonishment. It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommended in your letter.
Although Ahmed is sociopathic and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his “attitudinal problem” will help him overcome these character flaws.
Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences. He will bite you, given the chance. We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling. Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We do not suggest that you ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.
Ahmed will not wish to interact with your wife or daughters (except sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property. This is a particularly sensitive subject for him, and he has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that Ahmed will recommend as more appropriate attire. I’m sure they will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the bhurka - over time. Just remind them that it is all part of “respecting his culture and his religious beliefs” - wasn’t that how you put it? We aim to please every one.
Thanks again for your letter. We truly appreciate it when folks like you keep us informed of the proper way to do our job.
You take good care of Ahmed - and remember...we’ll be watching. Good luck!
Cordially...Your Buddy,
Don Rumsfeld
Just as an example, look what happened with Sheik Rahman (S.O.A.R.) and Lynn Stewart. We may not have had a 9/11 if she wasn’t passing messages back and forth.
Sure he does. He is feeding talking points for Duncan Hunter :) May be the only way Hunter gets sound bytes with Soros muzzle on the MSM.
He’s been getting it for a long time, Kimberly.
“Hunter gets it.”
BINGO!
Mr Bush, doesn’t, once again.
Laura Ingraham on Friday played a clip of Duncan Hunter telling about the delicious menu offered to the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, consisting of Orange glazed chicken, rice pilaf, etc.
Ingraham said Duncan Hunter rocks!
Do they have roast duck with mango salsa?
Unfortunately the left does’nt get it.
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