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Related: About this forumSupport growing to close Guantanamo prison: senator (McCain)
Source: Reuters
Support growing to close Guantanamo prison: senator
WASHINGTON | Sun Jun 9, 2013 1:27pm EDT
(Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday there is increasing public support for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and moving detainees to a facility on the U.S. mainland.
"There's renewed impetus. And I think that most Americans are more ready," McCain, who went to Guantanamo last week with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, told CNN's "State of the Union" program.
McCain, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he and fellow Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, are working with the Obama administration on plans that could relocate detainees to a maximum-security prison in Illinois.
"We're going to have to look at the whole issue, including giving them more periodic review of their cases," McCain, of Arizona, said.
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WASHINGTON | Sun Jun 9, 2013 1:27pm EDT
(Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday there is increasing public support for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and moving detainees to a facility on the U.S. mainland.
"There's renewed impetus. And I think that most Americans are more ready," McCain, who went to Guantanamo last week with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, told CNN's "State of the Union" program.
McCain, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he and fellow Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, are working with the Obama administration on plans that could relocate detainees to a maximum-security prison in Illinois.
"We're going to have to look at the whole issue, including giving them more periodic review of their cases," McCain, of Arizona, said.
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Support growing to close Guantanamo prison: senator (McCain) (Original Post)
Eugene
Jun 2013
OP
One of the arguments was that no American cities or states would want them in their area for fear of
okaawhatever
Jun 2013
#3
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)1. Where have you been Mr. McCain?
we wanted to close this years ago except your guys didn't want to. What changed?
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)2. Political opportunism?
Still, glad to hear him speak out in support of closing it. Why people listen to him or care so much about his views on foreign policy I'll never know but he happens to be supporting the right thing here, so.............
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)4. He is, although a little late
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)3. One of the arguments was that no American cities or states would want them in their area for fear of
million or an attempt to break them out of the prison. I say let's take the $950 million and divide it up among the residents of the area. I'll bet we could find some takers. Pay those closest a hundred grand a year or more and then decrease it as you move farther away from the facility.