RSSFor Gitmo’s detainees, no place to go
From: The Washington Times | June 5, 2009
President Obama isn’t finding any takers in the U.S. to house the terrorism detainees now being held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mr. Obama is determined to close the facility in January, repeating his pledge in Thursday’s speech in Cairo on U.S. relations with the Muslim world. But even in states whose senators say they support closing the prison and bringing the detainees to the United States, local officials are balking. “The answer to that is no. We are an overcrowded system,” said Vermont Corrections Department Commissioner Andrew Pallito. Both of the state’s U.S. senators, Democrat Patrick …
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