Posted on 08/14/2015 2:04:32 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Department of Defense notified lawmakers Friday that teams will visit two military installations in the United States — Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and the Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C. — to conduct “site surveys” looking into transferring a “limited number” of Guantanamo detainees, Pentagon and Capitol Hill sources told Fox News.
The move, coming on the same day Secretary of State John Kerry marked the re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, has already triggered a backlash on Capitol Hill. But, despite existing congressional restrictions on moving the detainees to U.S. soil, the notice itself suggests officials are wasting no time exploring transfer options for those at the controversial Cuba prison camp.
One Capitol Hill source, reading from the notification, said the first Defense Department survey team was due to visit Fort Leavenworth “starting today [Friday].”
The Naval Brig in Charleston will be visited in the “next several weeks,” said another source, reading from the same notification, which went out Friday morning.
Legally, the administration is still barred from transferring Guantanamo detainees to the United States, according to laws passed by Congress starting in 2010. Building or modifying facilities to house Gitmo inmates is also prohibited in the United States.
“Perhaps DoD does not think this is part of that ‘build or modify’ section,” one source told Fox News, questioning DoD’s funding of the site survey teams visiting the two military installations.
After learning of the survey teams, lawmakers representing Kansas vowed to fight any proposed transfers to their state. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said in a statement that the move "reflects another egregious overstep by this administration."
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and Honolulu and Chicago
Better idea: send Obama and Kerry to Gitmo and let them enjoy their token faux friends. At the same time, send the Cuba-pandering liberals like Rivera with them so they can preach their “Cuba is good” tripe there so all the political prisoners in Cuban prisons can listen to them too.
Gutless, anti-American pandering pansies.
Not a bad idea. Just turn em loose on the smallest, most isolated one and inhabited only by brown bears, hungry ones.
The ******’* gonn’a kill this country one way or another.
exactly
Right on.
Well if need be I’ll let them rent out my basement, I have plenty of ammo to spend on those illegal combatants and a good drain and basin sink!
The turkey’s been trying real hard to do just that.
Yup— that way he gets to screw the US twice over.
When they turn up in Whateverstan, drone their sorry a$$es.
Or............Dust off staffers only from Gitmo and MOAB the site.
Yep.
This had to be part of the kenyan bastard's capitulation to Fidel - a base that has been American Territory since we got Cuba in the Spanish American War in 1898, 117 years ago, and he is just going to hand it over.
Fidel knows how to make use of prison camps, and don't think he won't.
Obama’s Chicago and Hawaii homes are roomy enough for some.
I agree, Fidel and Raul must be drooling at the thought of getting that prison.
Obama should just give em a head start & then zap them with a drone-fired Hellfire from 30.000 ft. Problem solved. I mean he has absolutely no problem doing this in any other situation.
Fight? They do not know how to fight.
By the end of the year the Sultan will have given Guantanamo back to Cuba. By next summer it will be a Russian navy base, or maybe China will make a better offer.
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