Senator Opposes Closing Guantanamo

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Senator Opposes Closing Guantanamo
March 17, 2009
PR Newswire

WASHINGTON – Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today spoke out against President Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo and the possible transfer of some enemy combatants there to the continental United States.

Speaking on the floor of the United States Senate, Hatch noted a recent Defense Department report concluded “the detention facility and the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay are in compliance with Common Article III of the Geneva Convention.” Moreover, he added, the department found that interrogation protocols exceed the Army Field Manual and that cells at Guantanamo for maximum and high security cell blocks “exceed those typical of medium and maximum security detention facilities throughout the United States.”

“Removing these detainees from a secure military facility with an airport, a highly trained security force, a secure infrastructure and located on an island outside the continental United States is, in my opinion, reckless,” Hatch said. “Bringing these detainees to the continental United States is tantamount to injecting a virus into a healthy body.”

Sen. Orrin Hatch’s complete remarks on the Senate floor follow:

I rise today to express my apprehension regarding the closure of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in Cuba. I have several concerns regarding the transfer and disposition of the enemy combatants detained there in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/senator-opposes-closing-guantanamo.html?col=1186032307786

[Sherman A1]

1. I must agree with the Esteemed Senator

I do believe we need to change the residents of this facility to include Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Madoff, The Happy Go Lucky Group from AIG and the rest of the really fun crowd.

[MADem]

2. Wow, what a shock--Orrin Hatch takes issue! nt

[DrDan]

3. this, of course, is the same, lame brain who wants Arnie to run for Pres

that special underwear is choking blood to his brain