Send in the clowns:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Citing the terrorist attacks in Paris, newly empowered Republican senators on Tuesday proposed restrictions on President Barack Obama's ability to transfer terror suspects out of the federal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the remainder of his term. The White House acknowledged that congressional action makes it difficult for Obama to fulfill his goal of closing the facility.
"Now is not the time to be emptying Guantanamo," Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference in which she warned of fresh threats, bemoaned recent releases from the U.S. naval facility to other countries and introduced far-reaching legislation.
Obama has pushed to close Guantanamo since his inauguration in January 2009, but has faced strong opposition from congressional Republicans and some Democrats who argue that the facility is the ideal location for terror suspects since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
The recent strikes in France that left 17 dead were repeatedly mentioned as Ayotte and three other GOP senators — Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, Intelligence panel chairman Richard Burr and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — widely criticized the administration's drive to close Guantanamo.
"When we look at Paris and see it in real time ... anybody at Guantanamo is a legitimate source to go to" for questioning about intelligence information, Burr said.
McCain said the administration has failed to produce a plan on handling the Guantanamo population — now at 127. He said that with strong support from House Republicans, his committee would move swiftly on the bill.
Graham added that the detainees would not be let out "to plan another 9/11."
The legislation would bar transfers to Yemen for two years, suspend the transfer of high- or medium-risk terror suspects for the same period and repeal current law that has allowed the administration to transfer prisoners to foreign countries and reduce the population at Guantanamo.
The bill would prohibit transfers of terror suspects to foreign countries if there has been a confirmed case where an individual was transferred from Guantanamo and engaged in any terrorist activity. - Huffington Post, 1/13/15
2016 couldn't get here soon enough.