(GOP) Senators try to block funding to close Gitmo

[sabra]

Source: Wash Times

Senators again are trying to stop the Obama administration from closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by blocking the money needed to transfer the remaining and most notorious prisoners to the United States, Sen. James M. Inhofe said Tuesday.

The restriction is part of the Defense Appropriations Bill now being debated on the Senate floor and would extend similar legislation that expires Oct. 1.

Mr. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican, supports the bill and thinks it will pass because the 148 remaining prisoners are what he calls "the real bad guys," including accused al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

"I think we may be in a (good) position," Mr. Inhofe, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told The Washington Times' "America's Morning News" radio show. "Now that we're down to the real hard-core, you've got to keep that thing open."

Read more: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/exclusive-senators-try-block-funding-close-gitmo/?feat=home_headlines

[Chulanowa]

1. Before the releases...

Weren't they ALL the "hard core" and "the real bad guys"? So Inhofe is saying that calling the ones who were releasedthe "worst of the worst" was a blatant political lie?

[Zorra]

2. Ah, the GOP. They can't lead, and they won't follow.

So they should just get out of the way.

[bluestateguy]

3. I'm assuming the Administration has other pots of money elsewhere that they can use

The prison will be closed next year whether this asshole likes it or not.