{"id":57800,"date":"2015-01-22T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57800"},"modified":"2015-01-22T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:05:06","slug":"senate-sends-bill-to-block-gitmo-grads-from-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57800","title":{"rendered":"Senate sends bill to block Gitmo grads from Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we discussed yesterday, the Yemen government is being held hostage in the capitol by Shiite rebels, so the Senate, for some reason, think that we shouldn’t send graduates of our Guantanamo University back there when they complete their studies, according to the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Republican senators introduced legislation last week, citing the Paris and other terrorist attacks, as a reason to legally reinstate a ban on Yemeni transfers among other restrictions on Guantanamo transfers during Obama’s remaining two years in office.<\/p>\n

“The last thing we should be doing is transferring detainees from Guantanamo to a country like Yemen,” New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte said in a news conference to announce the bill. “We have not received assurances from the administration that they will not seek to transfer anyone to Yemen, despite the wild, wild West nature of what we’re facing when it comes to terrorism in Yemen.”<\/p>\n

Administration officials say even if they will not send detainees to Yemen now, Obama will not officially reinstate the ban to maintain flexibility in case conditions improve. The officials say he does not want any further restrictions on his ability to close Guantanamo with so little time left to meet his goal of shuttering it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, the administration, just last week released four graduates to Oman – you, know, the nation right next to Yemen on the Arab Peninsula, so how much difference does it make, really? By the way, the president promised to close Guantanamo by the end of 2009 and that goalpost has been passed by, so what’s the damn rush? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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