Sanders Hits Clinton on Gitmo, Despite His Own Similar Vote

[vdogg]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/23/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-guantanamo-bay-gitmo/index.html

"Bernie Sanders attacked Hillary Clinton's record on the detention center at Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday, just after President Barack Obama delivered his blueprint for the controversial military prison's closure.

But Sanders himself has voted against shuttering the U.S. military facility in Cuba.

And unlike Clinton, he has not signed on as a cosponsor to legislation that would have led to the closure of the facility, otherwise known as Gitmo.
"

More than a bit hypocritical it would seem.

[beam me up scottie]

1. Not this again.

Newsroom / Archives

Iraq and Afghanistan

Date Posted: 05/21/2009

The Senate on Thursday passed a $91 billion supplemental spending bill. The bulk of the spending would pay for war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. “The bill contains $73 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without providing, to my mind, the kind of exit strategy to both conflicts that I believe we need,” Senator Bernie Sanders said. A long-time critic of the war in Iraq, Sanders also has voiced reservations about the United States becoming bogged down in Afghanistan. The fate of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, also was debated during consideration of the bill. “I agree with President Obama that Guantanamo must be shut down. I want it shut down as soon as possible. I want to make sure that torture is never again part of America’s interrogation practices and that all detainees are treated under the rules of the Geneva Conventions,” Sanders said.

“A number of important questions remain unanswered regarding the rather complicated issue of not just how you close down the facility, but what you do with the prisoners,” he added. “Are there some who should be released, are there others who should be returned to their home countries, are we confident that under Bush the correct determinations were made with respect to these prisoners’ status as ‘enemy combatants’? In order to answer these questions, President Obama has appointed a high-level committee of top administration officials who will be issuing a report in the coming months. I think that it is prudent to review that plan they develop before we spend $80 million in taxpayer money.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20090528014431/http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=313364

[Skwmom]

7. The truth doesn't make the lies stop. n/t

[Thinkingabout]

2. Votes counts, they are a part of history. I don't understand the attack on this

issue when he has voted for the same.

[onecaliberal]

3. They have nothing legit so they have to recycle this stuff over and over.

[vdogg]

5. How is this not legit?

Sanders attacked on this issue, he brought it up. If it's not legitimate, as you say, he should've kept his mouth shut.

[vdogg]

6. Not to mention

You all have recycled that damn email story about 15,000 times. Pot meet kettle.

[onecaliberal]

8. The best email story IS legit. It was against the rules and she committed crimes

By sending classified information. You people are lucky Obama is in office but even he's not going to be able to protect her from what's coming. Keep ignoring it though, keep wondering why 67% of the country thinks she's a liar.

[vdogg]

9. Emails classified after the fact

= no crime committed, no matter how much you wish it were the case.