« Mexican President Attacks Second Amendment | Main | Portrait of a Moonbat: Lisa Fithian »

May 21, 2010

Gitmo Closure Fail

Posted by The MaryHunter at May 21, 2010 9:55 AM

The sun will still rise over Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the foreseeable future.

Last night the House Armed Services Committee finished this year's bill authorizing $567 billion worth of defense spending and another $159 billion for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars for the fiscal year beginning in October. […]

The actual bill hasn't been released yet. But buried at the bottom of an extensive summary the committee released last night is an express prohibition on the use of any Defense Department money to buy a new detention facility. According to the bill summary, the bill now requires Defense Secretary Robert Gates to give Congress a report that "adequately justifies any proposal to build or modify such a facility" if it wants to move forward with any post-Guantanamo detention plan.

According to Rush Limbaugh, the bill was passed in committee unanimously - every single Democrat supported this language.

That might place insurmountable obstacles to the the so-called "Gitmo North" plan to transfer Guantanamo detainees to Thomson [Correction Center, Illinois]. "They can't just create Guantanamo North and move everyone up there. That's clearly barred," said Chris Anders, a senior lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union who monitored yesterday's mark-up. "It doesn't mean that the proposal is dead, but it's hard to see how it makes a comeback after the House Armed Services Committee says there can't be money spent on Thomson."

Chalk up another spectacular failure for the Obama regime.

---

---