Gitmo stays ? Looks like it.

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http://washingtonindependent.com/85355/house-panel-deals-gitmo-closure-a-major-setback

House Panel Deals Gitmo Closure a Major Setback
Move Prohibits Use of Defense Department Money to Buy a New Detention Facility

“The Committee firmly believes that the construction or modification of any facility in the U.S. to detain or imprison individuals currently being held at Guantanamo must be accompanied by a thorough and comprehensive plan that outlines the merits, costs, and risks associated with utilizing such a facility,” the summary text read. “No such plan has been presented to date. The bill prohibits the use of any funds for this purpose.”
The bill, passed the committee on a vote of 59 to 0
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So...will Gitmo detention facility stay open....most likely....

Good to see this House Panel follow the lead of a President and CIC more suited for job of "leader of the free world" than they are as a group.....:clink:
 
Functionally, there is not a damned thing wrong with the Guantanamo Bay facility. It does what it is supposed to do quite well. Closing - or talking of closing it is just a bunch of typical liberal feel-good rhetoric. Move to a different place, and you're still takling about the same problems: how do we handle prisoners of this type? Are they POWs? Are they subject to criminal justice procedures? blah, blah, blah.

What needs to be done with Guantanamo is to clear up who goes there and why along with how they are treated. IMO, the military needs to correctly follow their own procedural regulations in handling persons captured in a designated combat area. There ARE procedures which are supposed to determine, on location and within a few days of capture, whether an individual falls under the heading of enemy combatant or civilian. Once that determination has been made, then the rest is clear as an artesian spring: enemy combatants are POWs, and civilians are released.

Or, maybe, (we don;t really know, because it's mostly still classified) the correct military procedures are (mostly) being followed and the whole outcry is that of a bunch of touchy-feelies who don't know shit, but want to be in charge of it all anyway.

I do know that enemy combatants - even though of a type we have not encountered before in war - should be given standard POW status and treated according to international POW standards. That, alone, would lay to rest the majority of the entire Guantanamo issue. The issue of torture and other incorrect treatment of detainees should never have happened, and, if still going on, need to stop.
 
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