WASHINGTON (AP) — Count the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman among those who believe it’s in the national interest to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
Gen. Martin Dempsey says the facility at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba “does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does.”
The U.S. has transferred of a number of detainees recently as President Barack Obama tries to make progress toward his goal of closing Guantanamo.
The prison population now is 127.
Dempsey says there are “dozens” who still must be detained.
He tells “Fox News Sunday” that’s a policy decision for elected officials — what to do if these detainees shouldn’t be released and Congress doesn’t allow them to be brought to the United States.
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He must be a communist!
He sure looks like that wingnut senator from Alabama.
“Whether it should or not, it does”
Very smart way to say it, that knocks down the right’s talking point of “we think it’s a good place”. Very politically savvy statement he made.
…these detainees shouldn’t be released and Congress doesn’t allow them to be brought to the United States.
Makes no sense at all. The US Supreme Court stated in 2004 that GITMO IS the United States.
Doth he mean to bring the GITMO prisoners - that are currently in the US, on US soil - onto the US mainland, aka the 48 states, sometimes called ‘The Big Island’?
Then why not say that?
Which decision are you referencing? I know 2004 Hamdi v Rummy said the government could detain enemy combatants, including US citizens. Maybe you are referencing another case? Not trying to challenge you, I am just curious.