White House considering moving Guantanamo detainees to Colorado prisons

[SecularMotion]

Source: Raw Story

With Colorado's long history of holding some of the country's most dangerous criminals in mind, the Pentagon reportedly is taking a serious look at relocating prisoners held in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to the state. The focus is the latest attempt by President Barack Obama's administration to find a solution to a problem that has been dogging the president since his first day in office.

A team of officials are to be sent by the Pentagon to investigate two facilities in the state, including the high-security complex known as ADX Florence, or Supermax, a federal prison with some of the nation's most dangerous convicts, according to the Wall Street Journal. Facilities in Kansas and South Carolina also have been considered recently.

The main obstacle facing Obama in shifting the 114 detainees currently held in Guantanamo has been convincing local lawmakers to accept them. Those pushing to move the prisoners to Colorado think the state's history with dangerous convicts will make it an easier sell to lawmakers there. The president and his administration have sought to transfer 50 of those detainees that are eligible to other countries.

The argument for holding the subset of prisoners that the administration hopes to transfer stateside is that they are too dangerous and should be held on the basis of prisoner of war principles, according to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/white-house-considering-moving-guantanamo-detainees-to-colorado-prisons/

[morningfog]

1. It is not the location, it is the indefinite detention.

The Adminstration claims the authority to hold some 50-70 forever, without formal charge or trial. That is a human right abuse.

[polly7]

2. It's horrible. nt.

[jaysunb]

3. Lame duck, my ass !! n/t

[Pharaoh]

4. they would need their own wing

or they might be killed

[mountain grammy]

5. Really? How about charging them and going to trial.

Will we keep political prisoners indefinitely?

[zeemike]

6. They are no more dangerous than most murders in prison now.

So what would they do if the broke out?...nothing more than any murder that did the same, but at a big disadvantage not speaking the language or knowing the country.

It is just another smoke screen to hold them without trial or charges by just declaring them "too dangerous"
And it is now more than 6 years after we elected a president that promised to do something about it. The Bush Cheney polices are still in place.

[davidpdx]

7. On one hand I want to see Guantanamo closed

on the other hand I think we should try or release as many of those that are being held as possible. I also think the return of Guantanamo to Cuba could be an olive branch for closer ties between the countries and an agreement to settle all past disputes.