A Wall Street Journal article:
Attorney General Eric Holder said some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may end up being released in the U.S. as the Obama administration works with foreign allies to resettle some of the prisoners.
Mr. Holder, in a briefing with reporters, said administration officials are still reviewing individual cases of the approximately 250 detainees to determine which will be put on trial and which may be released to comply with plans to close the detention facility by next year.
Six weeks into his tenure, Mr. Holder is still trying to assemble much of the Justice senior leadership, with several nominees awaiting Senate confirmation. He said he has reviewed the department’s handling of white-collar criminal cases in response to the financial crisis and is considering ways to increase coordination on financial fraud among federal prosecutors and state officials. He said he is trying to increase the budget dedicated to white-collar crime, while maintaining funding for national security.
European justice ministers met with Mr. Holder earlier this week and pressed for details on how many Guantanamo prisoners the U.S. planned to release domestically, as part of any agreement for allies to accept detainees. Mr. Holder said U.S. officials would work to respond to the questions European officials have over U.S. Guantanamo plans.
For “people who can be released there are a variety of options that we have and among them is the possibility is that we would release them into this country,” Mr. Holder said. “That process is ongoing and we’ve not made any determinations or made any requests of anybody at this point.”
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Releasing Guantanamo detainees into the United States would be an irresponsible outrage. The fact that it is even being considered is one important reason why Guantanamo needs to remain in operation: it would serve as the default home for detainees who would otherwise be released, but who have not yet found a country willing to take them. We sure don’t want them here!
Because some of them are NOT accused of being terrorists, or even “illegal combatants”. Some anti-communist Muslims from China who have never been accused of being anti-American, and there is no reason not to let them into the United States, and release them (other than the risk of make the Chinese mad at us, which is why they haven’t been released). The fact that any of them WANT to seek asylum in the United States speaks favorably of the US (note that many German and Italian prisoners didn’t want to go home after the war, but the reverse was virtually never true during WWII).
Yeah- akuperma – it does speak well of us. But if we don’t watch ourselves, the terrorists will use our wonderful Democratic system to take us over completely and then it will all be just a distant memory. Not everyone desreves the freedom of this country. Of course, everyone wants it.
#3 – if our military has determined that these Central Asian Chinese citizensare neither terrorists, nor hostile to the United States, who are you to second case them.
No one is talking about releasing terrorists (except some far-right commentators)
#2 –
You sound like Obama himself.
3,
We dont need the terrorists to use our wonderful Democratic system to take us over completely. Obama and his left wingers did that already. They have people drinking the “Obama Can Do No Wrong” flavor of Kool-Aid.
The NRA and like minded organizations want to know when is Terrorist/Gitmo Detainee Season?