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Username: Ongowwah
Post Number: 376
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 7:57 am: |    |
From brietbart.com
President Barack Obama's intelligence chief confirmed Thursday that some Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil and receive assistance to return to society.
"If we are to release them in the United States, we need some sort of assistance for them to start a new life," said National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair at his first press conference.
"You can't just put them on the street," he added. "All that is work in progress."
Obama has vowed to close the controversial prison camp by next January and has ordered individual reviews for cases against each of the over 240 remaining prisoners.
Blair told reporters that the review of Guantanamo cases was still underway, and that the government was "building dossiers on each of the detainees."
The Obama administration is currently evaluating what could be done with the prisoners, he said, but pledged that if they are sent to another country, "we have to be sure that that country will treat them in a humane fashion." |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 6001
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 8:07 am: | |
Since many of them were picked up for doing nothing I'm not so sure it's a bad thing. If only you had picked up this little tidbit from a credible news source we could better evaluate! |
Ongowwah
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Username: Ongowwah
Post Number: 377
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 8:40 am: | |
Oh, so you're saying you don't trust National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair? It is his quote. |
Ongowwah
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Username: Ongowwah
Post Number: 378
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 8:45 am: | |
If you google it and put (AP) after the story you could get it from your beloved AP and "better evaluate" it. (It is verbatim the same as the above brietbart quote. |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 6004
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 9:13 am: | |
I do love AP. (insert little heart and flowers emoticon) |
Sstashmoo
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Username: Sstashmoo
Post Number: 3526
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 9:18 am: | |
They should end up here. We owe them something. They were incarcerated and tortured for no reason. Bush was the worst President ever and we are all responsible for his actions. They'll probably sue us for few billion. We should offer it, would help our image globally. |
Ongowwah
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Username: Ongowwah
Post Number: 382
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:05 am: | |
Now that's funny! |
20043_stotter
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Username: 20043_stotter
Post Number: 859
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 1:33 pm: | |
No, Ongowash, you are hilariously funny. |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19711
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 12:55 am: | |
We lost Sstash to the liberals again it seems.
Why would these prisoners be released here instead of in their country of origin (if they should be released at all)? |
D_mcc
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Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 1807
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 1:31 am: | |
Um...I don't think the president ever said they would be released...I believe they will be inserted into an actual justice system where they will have basic human rights... |
Cheddar_bob
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Username: Cheddar_bob
Post Number: 1928
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 8:16 pm: | |
You've got give sstashmoo credit for not toeing the party line. Granted, he's generally wrong no matter what side of the fence he's on, but at least he doesn't blindly follow one side. In that respect he's got one up on you, cc. |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 19728
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 11:39 pm: | |
Umm..check again D_mcc, the President's staff have suggested and said exactly what you are denying.
The US constitution goes far beyond "basic human rights", BTW. |