Can you imagine the GALL of this guy? http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/04/03/senator-says-2005-law-prohibits-us-release-of-gitmo-detainees/tab/print/
Senator Says 2005 Law Prohibits U.S. Release of Gitmo Detainees *Evan Perez* /reports on the Justice Department./ Detainees being held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba may be prohibited from release in the United States under a 2005 law, according to a Republican senator who is raising the issue with the Justice Department. In an April 2 letter to Attorney General *Eric Holder*, Alabama Sen. *Jeff Sessions *expresses concern that as a result of President *Barack Obama*'s order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison within the next year, some of the prisoners held there may have to be released in the U.S. Holder last month noted that possibility as part of the review of the detainee cases and discussions with foreign allies who the U.S. hopes will help resettle those detainees who are considered eligible for release. The most dangerous detainees are expected to be tried, perhaps in U.S. civilian courts, or a retooled military judicial system or in other jurisdictions. Among those whose release is being reviewed are 17 ethnic Uighurs who are wanted by Chinese authorities who consider them to be members of a separatist group. "I would oppose any release of trained militants or terrorists into the United States," Sessions writes. "Such an action would be contrary to national security interests, as well as federal law." A Justice Department spokeswoman didn't have any immediate comment on the letter and wasn't sure it had yet been received. Holder said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that he understood concerns being raised as a result of the Guantanamo closure and other reversals of the Bush administration's national security policy but said Americans should be assured "we're not going to put the country at risk." Conversely, he said, it was some of the policies, including indefinite detention of terror suspects, that had done "damage" to the U.S., had made it difficult to work with allies and "ultimately made us less safe." Sessions cites a 2005 change in federal law that banned the admission to the U.S. of "any alien who had engaged in various forms of terrorist activity or training." He said that the Uighurs were known to have received training at camps in Afghanistan run by the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, and that other detainees at Guantanamo should be deemed inadmissible because of similar training. -- Linda *http://freedetainees.org <http://freedetainees.org/> "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear..." - William Shakespeare * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bangla-vision" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bangla-vision?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
