Congressman Roger Williams
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. On Tuesday President Barack Obama announced his plan to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba and transfer its prisoners to the United States and other nations.
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As Barack Obama rounds the final lap of his presidency we are witnessing his last-minute attempts to fulfill his failed campaign promises. If President Obama truly believes U.S. national security would be improved by shutting down a facility that holds the most violent Islamic extremists then he himself has undermined his role as the commander-in-chief. Instead of keeping our enemies outside Americas borders and away from the battlefield this president believes it is in our best interest to transfer them to the United States and back overseas.
Unbelievably President Obama all of a sudden cares about operating costs in his obvious attempt to appeal to Republican lawmakers. Fortunately this Congress has banned these detainees from being transferred to the United States because we realize that the safety of our homeland is paramount to anything.
On Wednesday in an
editorial in The Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens properly summarized the prisons purpose to fill a void by providing a secure location where we can hold enemy combatants who have violated the laws of war who may not be prosecutable in a civilian court and who are too dangerous to release.
