Bill could block Gitmo closure (somebody kick Inouye)

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27240.html


A bill that could go to the Senate floor as early as next week would make it impossible for President Barack Obama to move any Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S. for any reason, effectively blocking his plan to close the facility by January.

The bar on all such transfers was written into the Senate version of the Defense appropriations bill passed by the Appropriations Committee last week and is stricter than current law, which allows prisoners to be brought to the United States for trial as long as Congress is notified 45 days in advance of any potential risks.

The language, proposed by Appropriations Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), underscores the impatience many senators from both parties feel over the White House’s failure to settle on a site or a legal framework to detain prisoners who would have to leave Guantanamo in order to meet Obama’s January deadline.

The Senate panel also omitted any money to close Guanatanamo or build a new facility.

“We have not provided funding for the closure of Guantanamo, because the administration has yet to produce a credible plan,” Inouye said.
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this business of being afraid to bring these 'terrible' 'terrorists' to US prisons is a bunch of baloney.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Does this bill need the President's signature? n/t

[KamaAina]

4. Yes, but it's attached to the defense appropriations bill

I'm not holding my breath for "change we can believe in" in the form of a veto of that.

As for Sen. "In-Your-Way", he's Opihi's problem now. :eyes:

[izquierdista]

2. The prisoner becomes the jailer

Nobody knows better than an Auschwitz survivor how to keep the Palestinians "where they belong" and nobody knows better than a Manzanar internee how to keep an internment camp open. Even though he was in the Army instead of Manzanar at the time, I would expect better from Inouye.

[OHdem10]

3. Is this simply exercing Separation of Powers???Is this a message

we are not all in agreement on Gitmo?? Just asking