House Dems: Fix Gitmo, don't close it

[dbackjon]

A key House Democrat on intelligence matters believes that Guantanamo Bay doesn't need to be closed, but rather, needs to be fixed.

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, said he is planning legislation that would order the facility to be kept open, while assuring the world that torture and mistreatment of detainees has ended.

“What's needed at Guantanamo Bay is transparency and accountability,” Hastings said. “You go back and change the bad things and turn the page.”

Hastings said a colleague dubbed his plan “Guantanamo 2.0." Still in the draft stage, it would assure access to the prison by the United States's Western allies and watchdog groups like Amnesty International and the Red Cross. Add that to President Obama's decision to end "enhanced interrogation," and there isn't a need to close the detention facility, Hastings said.

“All they want to know is that there isn't any torture and people can go there and see,” Hastings said.

He said that under his proposal, "a small number" of detainees might still come to the United States to be tried.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/int ... 05-21.html

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[Wedgebuster]

It could be used to house the most recently past administration members.

[Ibanez]

Weren 't the Dem's calling for it's closure during the Bush administration?

[grizzaholic]

yes

[Cap'n Cat]

It could be used to house the most recently past administration members.

Ding.

[Cap'n Cat]

Help me out. Haven't been following the latest on this. Obama just wants to shut down the prison, right, not shut down all Guantanamo and return it to the Cubies?

[dbackjon]

Help me out. Haven't been following the latest on this. Obama just wants to shut down the prison, right, not shut down all Guantanamo and return it to the Cubies?

Correct

[Wedgebuster]

Just keep on the health professionals, and turn the place into a medical retreat for the multitudes of uninsured Americans who can not afford medical treatment here. We could let them use the refugee boats that come to Florida to get to the Git without expense to anyone.

[Cap'n Cat]

Just keep on the health professionals, and turn the place into a medical retreat for the multitudes of uninsured Americans who can not afford medical treatment here. We could let them use the refugee boats that come to Florida to get to the Git without expense to anyone.

Forcibly relocate all female homeless and welfare recipients there. Give Tman, Z, Hoagie, wildcatryan and killerkyle and native each a club and let them beat the fuck outta them until they're all dead. Problem solved.

[AZGrizFan]

Just keep on the health professionals, and turn the place into a medical retreat for the multitudes of uninsured Americans who can not afford medical treatment here. We could let them use the refugee boats that come to Florida to get to the Git without expense to anyone.

Forcibly relocate all female homeless and welfare recipients there. Give Tman, Z, Hoagie, wildcatryan and killerkyle and native each a club and let them beat the fuck outta them until they're all dead. Problem solved.

Why just the females?

[Cap'n Cat]

Forcibly relocate all female homeless and welfare recipients there. Give Tman, Z, Hoagie, wildcatryan and killerkyle and native each a club and let them beat the fuck outta them until they're all dead. Problem solved.

Why just the females?

They reproduce.