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bigtree

(85,977 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:50 PM Jun 2014

White House Pushes Back on Drive to Detain Benghazi Suspect at Gitmo

Tim Starks ?@timstarks 4h
White House Pushes Back on Drive to Detain Benghazi Suspect at Gitmo http://blogs.rollcall.com/five-by-five/white-house-pushes-back-on-drive-to-detain-benghazi-suspect-at-gitmo/ … via @rollcall

Republicans — among them potential presidential candidates Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz– are calling for captured Benghazi attack plot suspect Abu Khatallah to be housed at Gitmo.

The White House released a lengthy statement pushing back against that argument Tuesday.

Via Caitlin Hayden, National Security Council spokeswoman:

Abu Khatallah is currently in U.S. custody in a secure location outside the United States, and en route to the United States to face the charges against him. Some have suggested that he should go to GTMO. Let me rule that out from the start. The Administration’s policy is clear on this issue: we have not added a single person to the GTMO population since President Obama took office, and we have had substantial success delivering swift justice to terrorists through our federal court system.

Indeed, since 9/11, we have used the federal court system to convict and incarcerate hundreds of terrorists. The effective use of the criminal justice system has resulted in the debriefing, conviction and incarceration of U.S. citizens and non-citizens for acts of terrorism committed inside the United States and around the world. The system has repeatedly proven that it can successfully allow us to gather intelligence, handle the threat that we continue to face, and prosecute terrorists.

Some examples you might recall . . .

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White House Pushes Back on Drive to Detain Benghazi Suspect at Gitmo (Original Post) bigtree Jun 2014 OP

Thank you, President Obama.. Cha Jun 2014 #1

they have no crediblity on this issue JI7 Jun 2014 #3

Their Whine is acidic and bitter. Cha Jun 2014 #5

Republicans want to keep Gitmo open forever Renew Deal Jun 2014 #2

They need to highlight the fact that G DUHbya released this guy from Gitmo Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2014 #4

Terrorists are criminals yallerdawg Jun 2014 #6

So what do you suggest, throwing him in GITMO giftedgirl77 Jun 2014 #7

GITMO is not for terrorists yallerdawg Jun 2014 #8

Ok, maybe I misunderstood your post... giftedgirl77 Jun 2014 #9

K Cha Jun 2014 #10

Cha

(296,872 posts)

1. Thank you, President Obama..

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:53 PM

Jun 2014

"..we have not added a single person to the GTMO population since President Obama took office, and we have had substantial success delivering swift justice to terrorists through our federal court system.

Indeed, since 9/11, we have used the federal court system to convict and incarcerate hundreds of terrorists. The effective use of the criminal justice system has resulted in the debriefing, conviction and incarceration of U.S. citizens and non-citizens for acts of terrorism committed inside the United States and around the world. The system has repeatedly proven that it can successfully allow us to gather intelligence, handle the threat that we continue to face, and prosecute terrorists."

mahalo bigtree

JI7

(89,241 posts)

3. they have no crediblity on this issue

Reply to Cha (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:57 PM

Jun 2014

they are sounding so pathetic

Cha

(296,872 posts)

5. Their Whine is acidic and bitter.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:01 PM

Jun 2014

Renew Deal

(81,847 posts)

2. Republicans want to keep Gitmo open forever

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:57 PM

Jun 2014

But it's closing by January 2017. Obama will return prisoners if that's what it takes.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,757 posts)

4. They need to highlight the fact that G DUHbya released this guy from Gitmo

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:00 PM

Jun 2014

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

6. Terrorists are criminals

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:04 PM

Jun 2014

and recognize no common societal decency, targeting innocent and women and children for political and ideological purposes.

They are not enemy combatants or prisoners of war.

And as a policing action, when a terrorist is known to or threatens to commit acts of terror, they forfeit the rights afforded decent members of any society.

Abu Khatallah is very lucky to be alive to see a trial.

giftedgirl77

(4,713 posts)

7. So what do you suggest, throwing him in GITMO

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #6)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:17 PM

Jun 2014

to wither away & die? The word terrorist has been turned into a catch phrase in this country to label any Muslim that commits an act of violence against an American then as an excuse to throw them in a cell forever.

It's called due process & it's the way things are supposed to be done. People aren't disposable I don't give a shit who they are or what they have been accused of.