Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil

[Cold_Zero]

http://www.france24.com/en/200...ation

AFP - President Barack Obama's intelligence chief confirmed Thursday that some Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil and receive assistance to return to society. "If we are to release them in the United States, we need some sort of assistance for them to start a new life," said National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair at his first press conference. "You can't just put them on the street," he added. "All that is work in progress." Obama has vowed to close the controversial prison camp by next January and has ordered individual reviews for cases against each of the over 240 remaining prisoners. Blair told reporters that the review of Guantanamo cases was still underway, and that the government was "building dossiers on each of the detainees." The Obama administration is currently evaluating what could be done with the prisoners, he said, but pledged that if they are sent to another country, "we have to be sure that that country will treat them in a humane fashion." Twenty men detained at the remote US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in southern Cuba have been cleared of terrorism charges, including 17 Chinese Uighurs ordered released by a US court in June, seven years after their arrest. But the US says they may face persecution if returned to China. In an executive order signed days after he took office in January, Obama also promised to uphold the Geneva Conventions for the remaining prisoners until the detention center is closed. Blair touched on the controversial interrogation techniques used on terror suspects under the administration of president George W. Bush, saying that those methods -- including waterboarding, or simulated drowning -- would not be used under his tenure. But Blair, a retired US admiral, added that his team was examining other "enhanced interrogation techniques" for high-value detainees that comply with international conventions on prisoners of war. He did not elaborate on what methods would be used, but said such interrogations should be carried out by "government employees; they shouldn't be contractors; they should be highly trained, very supervised."

You have to be kidding me. Release them on US soil and rehab them? Why dont we just release our nonviolent offenders from State/Federal prisons back into society?

[Steady_One_S13]

Or just send them to Mexico...

[themadscientist]

"building dossiers on them"? Why don't they already have that info, they have had these people for years. Fail

[DJ Raijin]

"building dossiers on them"? Why don't they already have that info, they have had these people for years. Fail

+1 to that notion. i think we should be allowed to reinstate ancient methods of torture like the Rack and the Iron Maiden. Truly get medieval on them

[themadscientist]

No, nothing like that. But, if they are going to lock someone up they had better build a case on them. I am not for treating them like citizens but the spirit of habeus corpus is a basic human right that we should not discard for political expediency. If they are guilty it should be provable. If it isn't they need to be released to their home country. Whether that country chooses to shoot em in the head when they get off the plane is another issue.

[OriginalWheelman]

You can't just put them on the street

Exactly Dennis, exactly. Keep them in prison or send them home.

[dusred]

I don't think any kind of torture should be used on any prisoner and this is why I'm in favor of Obama's decision to release the prisoners at Guantanamo. We are supposed to be above torture here in the civilized US. I remember when one of the US toops got put in an Iraqi prison and tortured to death having his head cut off right in front of the camera and all of us were outraged by it; I remember the US saying how when an Iraqi person is captured they are fed and treated very well in a US prison (yeah, it put up a 'holier than thou' attitude but they still said it).

But releasing them onto US soil is BS. They should be returned to their own country.

[audtatious]

Depends on your definition of torture....

I've said it before and I'll say it again, by the time this is all over with the terrorists will be US citizens whom the Gov has put up in their own home, has procured a job for them, supports via welfare and are actively bringing a couple generations of their families over.

Put them in San Fran and call it a day....