President Obama is expected Thursday to sign executive orders calling for the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba within the year and the development of new procedures for handling detainees and new policies on interrogations. - FOX NewsUnder a scenario foreshadowed in the draft orders, some detainees being held at Guantanamo would be released, while others would be transferred elsewhere and later put on trial under terms to be determined. Closing Guantanamo could potentially mean moving the remaining detainees to federal prisons in the U.S., such as the Leavenworth prison in Kansas.
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, vehemently opposes that idea. He introduced legislation almost immediately after the draft regulation was announced requiring Obama to provide Congress 90 days' notice as well as a study that answers specific questions relating to security, logistics and alternatives before taking any action to close the Guantanamo prison or move the detainees. - FOX News
I don't quite understand the thinking on this whole thing. These people are prisoners of war, where should they be housed? Is this Obama's plan, to house prisoners of war in Prisons on the homeland? Does that mean that during times of war, when we take enemy prisoners we need to ship them back to the USA to be put into one of the prisons here? That doesn't make any since. That doesn't seem like a responsible thing to do, what about our Security? If you disagree with the process, then change the process. Don't bring the enemy to within our borders and put our very safety at risk. I hope that someone steps up and forces some sensibility here.
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