Nukes & Spooks:Gitmo detainees headed to Fort Leavenworth?

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Gitmo detainees headed to Fort Leavenworth?
Nukes & Spooks-McClatchy Newspapers

Besides housing many of the military’s academic and training centers, Fort Leavenworth holds the military’s largest correctional facility. And if Republican presidential candidate John McCain wins, that facility could become home to Guantanamo detainees.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and other key military leaders have said Guantanamo should be closed because it hurts the U.S. image. And there have been a litany of stories recently as the courts have weighed in on Gitmo practices. There is consensus that something should be done. The issue is: Where do you put the detainees (assuming the U.S. military keeps holding them)?

McCain has said they should come back to the mainland and onto a military facility. Fort Leavenworth, he says, is the most obvious choice.

I asked about the issue while here on base, and everyone here had a different reason why the detainees shouldn’t come here. There aren’t enough beds. Military prisoners and Guantanamo detainees shouldn’t mix. This is a family-driven community; what would happen if they got out? (One soldier said: “We have kids here!”) And scores of military policemen have guarded Guantanamo detainees so they could be in danger.

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http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/nationalsecurity/2008/06/gitmo-detainees.html