U.S. prepares to ramp up transfers from Guantanamo

[Valin]

Washington Post:

Missy Ryan and Adam Goldman

December 24 2014

 

The Obama administration is accelerating its efforts to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center, preparing to move dozens of inmates out of the prison in coming months in a step forward for President Obama’s redoubled attempt to achieve a core national security objective before he leaves office.

 

U.S. officials, describing administration plans to significantly reduce the Guantanamo population over the next six months, said they are in talks with a wide range of countries that they hope will accept all 64 detainees now approved for transfer.

 

President Obama has already spoken to fellow heads of state in an effort to arrange transfers, the officials said, one sign of the increased personal role they expect he will take as he inches closer to shuttering Guantanamo.

 

“He does not want to leave this to his successor,” Paul Lewis, the Pentagon’s special envoy for shutting down Guantanamo, said in an interview.

 

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2 years 27 days.

[Cyber_Liberty]

Meanwhile, we're offering rewards in the $millions for the capture of terrorists already released from Gitmo.

[Valin]

Cotton on Gitmo: Let them rot

Scott Johnson

February 5, 2015

 

 

Senator Tom Cotton is not impressed by the argument that our detention facility at Gitmo is a recruiting tool for terrorists. Indeed, he thinks the argument is a pretext for the pursuit of Obama’s world-turned-upside-down views (as it obviously is). Senator Cotton made his point in dramatic fashion in the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning as he interrogated Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Brian McKeon about Guantanamo Bay policy

 

 

Via Washington Free Beacon.

[clearvision]

@Valin, @Cyber_Liberty

 

Maybe we should start a "manned" drone missile program. A return to sender sort of deal...

[Valin]

@Valin, @Cyber_Liberty

 

Maybe we should start a "manned" drone missile program. A return to sender sort of deal...

 

 

.... That just might work!

[Cyber_Liberty]

@Valin, @Cyber_Liberty

 

Maybe we should start a "manned" drone missile program. A return to sender sort of deal...

Pretty good idea! It's a shame they don't have "COD" any more.

[Valin]

Cotton on Gitmo, take 2

Scott Johnson

February 10, 2015

 

Senator Tom Cotton is not impressed by the argument that our detention facility at Gitmo is a recruiting tool for terrorists. Indeed, he thinks the argument is a pretext for the pursuit of Obama’s world-turned-upside-down views (as it obviously is). Senator Cotton made his point in dramatic fashion in the Senate Armed Services Committee last week as he interrogated Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Brian McKeon about Guantanamo Bay policy. We posted the video here, in which Senator Cotton expressed his desire to let the hardened terrorists we have on hand “rot in hell” or, in the alternative, “rot in Guantanamo Bay.”

 

(Snip)

 

One David Nevin is the civilian attorney for Gitmo detainee and 9/11 mastermind KSM. Nevin did not take kindly to Senator Cotton’s words. Nevin disapproved; he called Senator Cotton’s words “utterly shameful” and declared them poorly advised. Why, according to Nevin, terrorists hearing those words might mistreat captured American soldiers! They might not accord them the treatment to which they are entitled as prisoners of war!

 

Megyn Kelly invited Senator Cotton to appear on FNC’s Kelly File show last night to respond

 

http://youtu.be/fzcOdoLJY4s

[Valin]

Cotton on Gitmo, Take 3

Paul Mirengoff

February 10, 2015

 

Last night, Sen. Tom Cotton appeared on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News program to respond to criticism of his statement that terrorists at Gitmo should “rot in hell.” Kelly asked Senator Cotton to address the specific (and entirely bogus) complaint by the attorney for the 9/11 mastermind that Cotton’s statement endangers American captives abroad). Scott posted Senator Cotton’s response here.

 

After Senator Cotton’s appearance, Kelly trotted out Andrew Napolitano, Fox News’ resident libertarian, for his reaction. Napolitano proceeded to attack Tom — speciously and condescendingly, as I argue below.

 

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Here was Napolitano’s response:

Napolitano went to serve up a paean to the legal system that has been established to provide rights to detainees and to the military prosecutors who helped formulate them. He praised General Mark Martins, the system’s architect and a Harvard Law grad (no less), and he accused Cotton of “insulting the system.”

 

My beef with the senator – who’s an Iraq War veteran and a lawyer – is that he should know what the Supreme Court ruled. . .When a senator who is a lawyer basically thumbs his nose at the system and says these people should rot in hell or rot in Gitmo – whether they’re guilty or innocent – doesn’t cut it.

 

(Snip)

 

 

http://youtu.be/qBOwll1Mt8c

 

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Give the system a chance? How many decades Andy?