Posted on 07/27/2015 3:25:05 PM PDT by Whenifhow
A plan being drafted for closing the Guantanamo military prison will call for the transfer to US prisons of possibly dozens of inmates deemed too dangerous to release, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser said, setting up a fight with congressional opponents.
Outlining the White House proposal that will soon be sent to Congress, Lisa Monaco, one of Obama's top national-security aides, told the Aspen Security Conference on Saturday that the US would step up the transfers of 52 detainees cleared for resettlement in other countries.
The plan calls for the rest of the inmates at the US naval base in Cuba to be brought to the US to "Supermax" or military prisons for trials or continued military detention, Monaco said. Some 116 detainees remain at Guantanamo, many held more than a decade without charge or trial.
Obama's new push to meet his longstanding pledge to shut the internationally condemned prison is sure to face strong resistance from Republicans who control Congress. Legislation currently bans the transfer of detainees to the US mainland.
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The plan, which the White House says is nearing completion, will include establishing "security protocols" to increase resettlement of prisoners in countries other than their own.
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I have no problems with immediately closing the Gitmo prison. Just execute the inmates, and decommission the empty building.
The only “Monaco” I like is the little postage stamp country and the fudge are Rehobeth, Delaware. This one is dumb as dog crap on a hot summer afternoon, and one reason we are getting creamed overseas and here at home by our enemies.
Not only will this empty gitmo to return it to Cuba, but these prisoners will be ‘seeded’ throughout the US prison system! If they are allowed to communicate with each other in the prison system, they WILL make an army of jihadists.
The only viable option is to move them to an outdoor facility on Rat Island, Alaska.
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