Posted by
Tom L. on Friday, May 01, 2009 12:00:00 AM
According to the liberal New York Times (30 April 2009):
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested on Thursday that as many as 100 detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba would end up housed on American soil.
At a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Mr. Gates said that he has asked for $50 million in a supplemental request to this year’s Pentagon budget in case a new cell block needs to be built quickly for the detainees…
In January President Obama ordered the prison closed, but his administration is still working on what to do with the detainees…
“What do we do with the 50 to 100 — probably in that ballpark — who we cannot release and cannot try?” Mr. Gates said…
Is there a problem with the facility at Guantánamo Bay? If not, why build a cell block? Save the taxpayer $50 million and just leave the detainees there and treat them in a way that President Obama finds satisfactory.