DEMS REASSESS GITMO PLANS
Senate Dems Criticize The Administration’s Plans Saying Detainees “Don’t Belong In Our Jails,” “There Are Facilities Built In Guantanamo Right Now That Are Able To Do That”
May 18, 2009
SEN. JIM WEBB (D-VA): "I Think That The People Who Have Been Held In Guantanamo Are Being Charged Essentially For Acts Of International Terror, For Acts Of War, And They Don't Belong In Judicial System, And They Don't Belong In Our Jails. ... [T]here Are Facilities Built In Guantanamo Right Now That Are Able To Do That." (ABC's "This Week," 5/17/09)
SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D-MT): "We're Not Going To Bring Al-Qaeda To Big Sky Country - No Way, Not On My Watch." ("Bid To Lure Gitmo Prisoners To Montana Nixed," USA Today, 4/24/09)
SEN. JON TESTER (D-MT): Said He Is "Against Any Proposal To Bring Guantanamo Detainees To Montana." ("Bid To Lure Gitmo Prisoners To Montana Nixed," USA Today, 4/24/09)
SEN. BEN NELSON (D-NE): "I Wouldn't Want Them, And I Wouldn't Take Them ... I Don't See A Solution." ("Lawmakers Balk At Holding Guantanamo Detainees In U.S.," The Washington Post, 5/8/09)
SEN. BARBARA MIKULSKI (D-MD): "We Have To Make Sure That Streets And Neighborhoods Don't Think That They're Going To Be The Repository Of Guantanamo Prisoners." ("Holder Seeks To Calm Uproar Over Guantanamo," Reuters, 5/7/09)
SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D-MO): "Guantanamo Is A Huge Political Problem ... All Of Us Will Take Some Political Heat For It." ("Democrats Face Hard Time Over Guantanamo," Los Angeles Times, 5/7/09)
SEN. MARK WARNER (D-VA) Expressed Concern Over Guantanamo Detainees Being Moved To Quantico Marine Base. "And Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, said in an interview that he was deeply concerned about the possibility of some detainees being moved to the Marine base at Quantico in his home state, which, he said, ‘is in a very populated area in the greater capital region.'" ("Seeking Cudgel, Republicans Return To National Security Issue," The New York Times, 5/2/09)
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