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WH: 'We Will Close Gitmo Because It is Bad for Our National Security and Because It's Too Costly'
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 11, 2016 | 7:01 AM EST | Susan Jones

Posted on 01/11/2016 10:16:55 AM PST by Olog-hai

Congress has expressly forbidden President Obama from transferring prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the United States, but White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough shrugged it off on Sunday.

"What the president just said is, he's going to work with Congress, present them a plan to close (the prison), and then he'll make some final determinations," McDonough told Fox News Sunday.

"But let me be clear, the president has said from the beginning of this administration that we will close Gitmo because it's bad for our national security and because it's too costly -- $4 million per year per detainee in that facility. That's a travesty. ...

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cuba; denismcdonough; guantanamo; nicaragua; obama; rop; russia; venezuela; waronterror
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1 posted on 01/11/2016 10:16:55 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Don’t you make the cost-per-copy lower by adding more copies?


2 posted on 01/11/2016 10:19:12 AM PST by MortMan (I am offended by those who believe they have a right not to be offended.)
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To: Olog-hai

FUBO!


3 posted on 01/11/2016 10:19:30 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: Olog-hai

He wants to give Gitmo back to the Cubans so bad he can taste it.......................


4 posted on 01/11/2016 10:21:04 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Olog-hai

Just liquidate it. Probably some hungry sharks around there somewhere.


5 posted on 01/11/2016 10:21:10 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Olog-hai
we will close Gitmo because it's bad for our national security

Well sure... they way you idiots run it. Why yes. Yes it is. But if you weren't running it, it would be good for security.

6 posted on 01/11/2016 10:25:30 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Olog-hai

it would be worth paying to keep Gitmo open if we can put Obama and his retinue in there


7 posted on 01/11/2016 10:25:31 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the thatD's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant)
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4 mill per year per detainee? Why the hell is that?

Show me the books. I think I can find a way to save 3 or 4 million.

8 posted on 01/11/2016 10:25:43 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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WH: 'We Will Close Gitmo Because It is Bad for Our National Security and Because It's Too Costly'

If cost and national security mattered, Obama should have resigned 7 years ago.

9 posted on 01/11/2016 10:26:32 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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"What the president just said is, he's going to work with Congress, present them a plan to close (the prison), and then he'll make some final determinations," McDonough told Fox News Sunday.

Translation: The POS is going to present a "plan", then do what he wants because he knows there are no consequences for simply ignoring the Constitution. He knows nobody is going to stand up to him.

Every single thing he says when he opens his arrogant, stinking pie-hole makes me angrier and angrier.

10 posted on 01/11/2016 10:26:54 AM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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$4 million per year per detainee

I'll take one and keep him chained up in the basement for only $3 million per year.

11 posted on 01/11/2016 10:27:16 AM PST by Cementjungle
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"But let me be clear...

Oh. Yes. By all means. Please be clear.

Bunch of lying sacks of carp.

12 posted on 01/11/2016 10:28:22 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Cost! He never gave a rat’s ass about the cost of anything.


13 posted on 01/11/2016 10:29:16 AM PST by AU72
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To: Olog-hai

How about Barack & Mooch forgo their Farewell Tour of the planet because it’s so expensive and killing the planet?


14 posted on 01/11/2016 10:29:17 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE.

This move is his last hurrah .. the last chance he has to destroy America, by unleashing more MUSLIM TERRORISTS TO ORGANIZE MORE HITS ON AMERICA.

DemocRATS .. you are the ones who foisted this person upon America, and we will never FORGET.


15 posted on 01/11/2016 10:29:40 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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Zackly. This is a guy who spends millions of taxpayer dollars to fly his dog on a separate aircraft than himself. What's up with that? Is he allergic to Bo? Can't be. That type of dog is hypo-allergenic.

Must be some other reason.

16 posted on 01/11/2016 10:31:16 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Could be true per prisoner - when you consider all the perks they demanded and got, also count the cost of the million dollar soccer field and who know$ for the state of the art gym - it goes on - nothing for the best for these murdering slime - max security in a fed prison will be a huge let down in life style, which likely (when all the hearts stop bleeding) will mean huge upgrades to keep the slime happy.

There only value is intel, other than than there ought to be a trip to the basement exit door for all of them (inside Russian joke).


17 posted on 01/11/2016 10:31:56 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Olog-hai

Did the Gitmo Detention Center exist before 9/11?

No it didn’t, so it was never some sort of a reason for increased Terrorism as Obama likes to say.

As far as the cost put Prisoner, just have Sheriff Joe run it. Pink Underwear and Bologna Sandwiches for everyone.

Just tell the Prisoners that the Bologna is Halal.


18 posted on 01/11/2016 10:35:02 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, unable to call a Spade a Spade...)
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To: Olog-hai
"Congress has expressly forbidden President Obama from transferring prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the United States..."

I'm sure Bambi is very, very scared of those gutless-wonders in Congress.

19 posted on 01/11/2016 10:35:50 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Texas Eagle

Dogs are considered ‘unclean’ in Islam

“The King” may be worried his body will get dog blood in the event of a crash


20 posted on 01/11/2016 10:36:26 AM PST by varyouga
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