G.O.P. Big Spenders Vote to Keep Wasting Money on Guantanamo (Congress, health care)
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Despite the fact that many prisoners at Guantanamo have never been prosecuted because there IS no evidence against them, or because they were tortured into confessing, which makes their testimony inadmissable in court, the "small government, fiscally prudent" Republicans in the House voted down an amendment that might have accelerated transfer or release of inmates from Guantanamo.
Currently, the government spends $1.6 million per prisoner per year at Guantanamo, and there are 90 prisoners there. If they were transferred to federal prisons it would cost $34,000 per prisoner, but on Friday June 14th the "small government" Republicans voted to not transfer the inmates to federal prisons on American soil.
The House Republicans also voted down an amendment to repeal a dangerous provision in the 2013 military budget. That provision authorized military detention for anyone captured in the United States on suspicion of terrorism, and did not explicitly exclude American citizens.
Despite the fact that many prisoners at Guantanamo have never been prosecuted because there IS no evidence against them, or because they were tortured into confessing, which makes their testimony inadmissable in court, the "small government, fiscally prudent" Republicans in the House voted down an amendment that might have accelerated transfer or release of inmates from Guantanamo.
Currently, the government spends $1.6 million per prisoner per year at Guantanamo, and there are 90 prisoners there. If they were transferred to federal prisons it would cost $34,000 per prisoner, but on Friday June 14th the "small government" Republicans voted to not transfer the inmates to federal prisons on American soil.
Wow, that was pretty lame even by C-D standards. Clearly you guys got nuthin'.
I agree with the vote, I don't want any of the guys in GITMO brought to the US and given civilian trials. I just think it's funny as hell that a bunch of morons would blame the Reps for a bill about GITMO 5 years after your messiah failed to keep his promise of closing it down.
Exactly lets bring them all to US soil. We can apologize for treating them badly just for killing innocent people. We can give them a new life as a liberal. Free housing, right to vote, free health care, food stamps. Then they can join the PTA.
How does that sound?
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