Legislation Introduced to Force Obama to Release Public Info on Guantanamo Bay Transfers

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Free Beacon:

Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) introduced an amendment to the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Tuesday that would require the defense secretary, in consultation with the secretary of state, to give Congress unclassified notice of plans to transfer detainees currently held at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

 

The unclassified notice would need to specify the name, country of origin, and country of destination for the individual detainee planned to be transferred 30 days before the transfer occurs. Additionally, it would need to stipulate the count of ex-detainees transferred to the country of destination in question who are known or believed to have reengaged in terrorism after their transfer.

 

Finally, the defense secretary would be required to tell Congress why the particular country of destination was chosen and disclose other countries that might receive transfers.

 

“The American people deserve to know when and where President Obama plans to transfer the remaining 80 detainees at Guantanamo Bay. As of January 2016, 204 out of 676 transferred Guantanamo detainees—almost one third of those transferred—were confirmed or suspected of reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities,” Johnson told the Washington Free Beacon in a statement.

 

“Information regarding these transfers should be public, not hidden by unnecessary classification. The detainees remaining in the Guantanamo Bay facility are the worst of the worst, and the threat they pose must be addressed seriously and transparently.”