Posted on 05/21/2010 5:53:54 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
In an interesting development the House Armed Services Committee unanimously approved of legislation that would block Gitmo, Illinois from coming to fruition. In fact, they've blocked any Gitmo terrorist from being transferred anywhere into the interior of the USA. This is a blow to Obama's desires to shut Gitmo down and to bring terrorists to a prison near you.
Wednesday the committee approved a defense bill for 2011 that includes language to prevent moving detainees into any US facility inside our borders and also blocked any funding to even study the possibility.
The bill does, however, state that the Secretary of Defense must submit to Congress a full report that "adequately justifies" any such proposal in the future which seems to signal that they haven't shut the door on the possibility of a later opening of a detainee facility inside US borders.
This would appear to be a case of Congress telling the president that he overstepped his position when he announced that he had the power to transfer terrorists to the states...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
It would be a good thing to sell the Thomson prison to the feds and get it open for use. But a very BAD idea to put terrorists anywhere on US soil.
Another Obama failure.
It was all show for the nuts ...
Ping!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! nobama takes one up the wazoo.
Total Failure.
Can’t wait to defund that peice of crap so called Healthcare bill.
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