RSSEXCLUSIVE: Senators try to block funding to close Gitmo
From: The Washington Times | September 29, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: Senators again are trying to stop the Obama administration from closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by blocking the money needed to transfer the remaining and most notorious prisoners to the United States, Sen. James M. Inhofe said Tuesday. The restriction is part of the Defense Appropriations Bill now being debated on the Senate floor and would extend similar legislation that expires Oct. 1. Mr. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican, supports the bill and thinks it will pass because the 148 remaining prisoners are what he calls “the real bad guys,” including accused al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. “I think …
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